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Celerity

(55,047 posts)
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 12:36 AM Oct 2022

FLORIDA, MAN: Enraged Bodybuilder Incinerated Ex-Wife in His Backyard, Cops Say

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Detectives say they found a human jawbone on Ian Christopher Baunach’s property, according to a newly unsealed complaint.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/enraged-bodybuilder-ian-christopher-baunach-incinerated-ex-wife-katie-baunach-in-his-backyard-cops-say



A Florida man is accused of killing his ex-wife when she stopped by his house to pick up some of her belongings, then incinerating her body after taking back her wedding band and engagement ring, according to the feds. Days later, detectives say they found a human jawbone—with a tooth still attached—in a “burn pile” on his five-acre property.

The gruesome new details are revealed in a criminal complaint unsealed Tuesday in Tampa federal court, charging Ian Christopher Baunach with possession of 13 unregistered firearm silencers. Baunach, 43, was arraigned Monday on first-degree murder charges in the death of Katie Baunach, 39, along with charges including failure to report a death to the medical examiner and 12 counts of possession of controlled substances without a prescription, for a cache of steroids allegedly found in Baunach’s home.

Baunach remains in custody at the Hendry County Jail, according to booking records. He does not have a lawyer listed in court records, and was unable to be reached for comment on Tuesday. On social media, Baunach, an avid bodybuilder, claims to be an ex-Marine who attended Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University.



The case against Baunach can be traced back to the morning of Sept. 30, when a friend of Katie’s reported her missing. Earlier in the month, Katie had applied for, and received, a restraining order against Baunach for allegedly abusing one of their two children, the federal complaint says. Last November, Baunach was arrested on charges of domestic battery by strangulation, and was released the same day on $25,000 bond, jail records show. Prosecutors did not pursue the case, and the charges were dropped in January 2022.

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FLORIDA, MAN: Enraged Bodybuilder Incinerated Ex-Wife in His Backyard, Cops Say (Original Post) Celerity Oct 2022 OP
I think this is the outcome a lot of prosecutors prefer, because when women actually stand up for ecstatic Oct 2022 #1
Just take one look at this giant turd masquerading as a human and you Gaugamela Oct 2022 #2
Put this monster with his steroid-addled brain... brush Oct 2022 #3
He'll simultaneously publicly claim he's being framed by the Feds for his political views Hugh_Lebowski Oct 2022 #4
+1 Celerity Oct 2022 #5
Damn, he's almost as buff as I am! Abolishinist Oct 2022 #6
We need to revamp he entire legal system Genki Hikari Oct 2022 #7
Full blooded MAGAt malaise Oct 2022 #8
yes, a MAGAt Celerity Oct 2022 #9
Hope he and the Slobfather die in prison malaise Oct 2022 #10
Don't Google "FL man charged in death ... Whiskeytide Oct 2022 #11

ecstatic

(35,140 posts)
1. I think this is the outcome a lot of prosecutors prefer, because when women actually stand up for
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 12:40 AM
Oct 2022

themselves and defend their own lives, they get thrown in prison.

Gaugamela

(3,577 posts)
2. Just take one look at this giant turd masquerading as a human and you
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 12:45 AM
Oct 2022

can see what he is. I don’t know why women fall for this this kind of schtick.

 

brush

(61,033 posts)
3. Put this monster with his steroid-addled brain...
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 12:45 AM
Oct 2022

under the jail with no possibility of parole.

 

Hugh_Lebowski

(33,643 posts)
4. He'll simultaneously publicly claim he's being framed by the Feds for his political views
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 01:03 AM
Oct 2022

While the court filings will show he's claiming he was driven insane by steroid addiction.

And Cult45 will eat it up and make him out to be a great guy, and refuse to admit his stories are 100% conflicting.

That's how these fuckers are now. Mirroring IQ45.

Watch.

Abolishinist

(3,067 posts)
6. Damn, he's almost as buff as I am!
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 01:38 AM
Oct 2022

Although I must say, much angrier.

Arrested on charges of domestic battery last November, then released. And now this. We seriously need to revamp our mental health system.

 

Genki Hikari

(1,766 posts)
7. We need to revamp he entire legal system
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 05:21 AM
Oct 2022

Cops, prosecutors and judges--to start taking violence against women seriously, at very long last.

Few of them do.

malaise

(298,359 posts)
8. Full blooded MAGAt
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 05:44 AM
Oct 2022

He got bail but a guy who stole a back pack in New York was sent to Riker’s island.
The system allows these shithounds to kill/abuse women

Whiskeytide

(4,662 posts)
11. Don't Google "FL man charged in death ...
Wed Oct 12, 2022, 06:31 AM
Oct 2022

… of ex-wife”. It’s a little depressing how often that headline appears.

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