Margaret Sanchez and Terry Speaks indicted by Grand Jury

Publish date: 2024-08-23

Couple who 'stabbed and dismembered New Orleans stripper before hiding her body parts along Mississippi Gulf Coast' is indicted by Grand Jury

By Associated Press and James Rush for MailOnline

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A couple have been indicted by a grand jury in the grisly death of a New Orleans stripper who was stabbed and dismembered two years ago.

Margaret Sanchez, 30, and Terry Speaks, 41, have been charged with second-degree murder, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice.

Jaren Lockhart, 22, died from a single stab wound to the chest. Her head and body parts were found discarded along the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Margaret Sanchez, 30, (pictured) and Terry Speaks, 41, have been indicted by a grand jury in the killing and dismemberment of a New Orleans stripper The couple have been charged with second-degree murder, obstruction of justice and conspiracy to obstruct justice

Margaret Sanchez, 30, (left) and Terry Speaks, 41, (right) have been indicted by a grand jury in the killing and dismemberment of a New Orleans stripper

Sanchez and Speaks, who is in a federal prison in New York, have been accused of inviting Lockhart to a private party on June 6, 2012, Nola.com/The Times-Picayune has reported.

Police say Lockhart told co-workers at Temptations Gentlemen's Club that she was leaving to 'make rent.'

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According to the report, Lockhart's head, legs and arms below the elbows were cut off.

Speaks has also been charged with failure to register as a sex offender.

Jaren Lockhart, 22, died from a single stab wound to the chest. Her head and body parts were found discarded along the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Jaren Lockhart, 22, died from a single stab wound to the chest. Her head and body parts were found discarded along the Mississippi Gulf Coast

Authorities found the stabbed torso of Lockhart washed up in Mississippi's Hancock County in June 2012, NOLA reported at the time.

Her decapitated head and parts of her legs were found in nearby Harrison County.

Authorities were able to identify Lockhart based on her neck tattoos. Her fiance reported her missing after she did not return from a shift at a Bourbon Street club.

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