When Alexis Valdez’s aunt told her do-nothing nephew that she wanted him out of her Northwest Side apartment, he decided to leave her a Christmas Eve “present.”

The gift Valdez left on his aunt’s bed, Cook County prosecutors alleged in court Friday, was the severed head of her boyfriend, Silvestri Diaz

After prosecutors outlined one of the more gruesome crimes in recent memory at the George Leighton Criminal Courthouse, Cook County Judge Peggy Chiampas ordered Valdez — a slight 18-year-old with no known criminal history — held without bond.

In court, Assistant State’s Attorney Kingsley Sawyers said Valdez moved in with his aunt and Diaz about six months ago. Valdez was allowed to move into the apartment, in the 2500 block of N. Kildare, on the condition that he go to school, work and contribute to household expenses, Sawyers said. But eventually, Valdez stopped working and he was asked to move out.

On Christmas Eve, while the aunt was attending a party, Valdez started drinking and became angry at being forced to move out. At some point, Diaz came home to the apartment and went with Valdez to a store to buy more beer.

“Before leaving to go to the store, the defendant took a hammer from the porch and hid it by the door so that he could kill the victim after they returned home,” Sawyers said.

When Valdez and Diaz returned, Valdez unleashed his fury, smashing Diaz in the head multiple times with the hammer, prosecutors alleged. Diaz fell to the floor. When Diaz was dead, Valdez dismembered the body, eventually cutting off Diaz’s head as he played loud music to conceal his actions, Sawyers said.

Valdez also used a butcher knife to cut off Diaz’s ears, nose and mouth, Sawyers said. Valdez allegedly continued acting on his rage by pulling out Diaz’s eyes with his bare hands. He also cut off Diaz’s arms and sliced the dead man’s torso from his neck to his pelvis, Sawyers said.

Valdez left the head, ears and nose on Diaz’s bed because he wanted to leave his aunt a present, Sawyers said.

Valdez eventually became exhausted from cutting up the body, Sawyers said. He called 911 to report a dead body. When the 911 operator asked Valdez if he’d tried CPR, “the defendant laughed and told the 911 operator that the victim had been decapitated,” Sawyers said.

When police arrived, Valdez was covered in blood and admitted to killing Diaz, Sawyers said.

“The defendant also admitted that he was angry with his aunt and the victim, and that if his aunt had come home and seen the victim’s body, then he would have killed her as well,” Sawyers said.

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This was an interesting article. What I found most fascinating, however, was the first comment underneath the story, from Alfreda Calbert:

Sadly, this is why so many people are homeless. Some of them are of them are there because they are rotten and lazy and think the world owes them something.

I am guessing that Alfreda Calbert must be a sociologist, or at least an expert on homelessness.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

This was an interesting article. What I found most fascinating, however, was the first comment underneath the story, from Alfreda Calbert:

Sadly, this is why so many people are homeless. Some of them are of them are there because they are rotten and lazy and think the world owes them something.

I am guessing that Alfreda Calbert must be a sociologist, or at least an expert on homelessness.

That aunt must be hard to shop for.

How angry do you have to be to sever someone's head, and saw off many of their limbs? I have been extremely angry several times in my life, but I have never decapitated anybody. That is really taking one's game to another level.

I am proud to say that NOT ONCE has it ever even crossed my mind that decapitating A.J. Burnett or Phil Hughes would be a good idea. Pounding them senseless? Perhaps. Once they were unconscious, however, I would definitely stop the beating.

For such a gruesome, disturbing story, the article starts out unnervingly light-hearted.

If you hate Laurence, then don't listen - don't comment. When he co-hosts the B&B show, take that day off ... listen to an old podcast of a Bernstein solo show and jerk off all day.

Sadly, this is also why some people are headless.

Les Grobstein's huge hog is proof that God has a sense of humor, isn't it?

Why do they fail to mention what miraculously useful machine or tool was used to do the heavy lifting in this bout of extreme madness?

Why do they fail to mention what miraculously useful machine or tool was used to do the heavy lifting in this bout of extreme madness?

When Diaz was dead, Valdez dismembered the body, eventually cutting off Diaz’s head as he played loud music to conceal his actions, Sawyers said.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

That chick is too hot to be sitting in a urinal.

That's part of my scale.

Ugly
OK
Nice
Smokin'
Too Hot to Sit in a Urinal
Hot

We have mods?

Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.

Sure.

Im pretty hammered right now.

holy fuck...