Navy veteran as soon as touted by Trump as ‘sufferer’ of #MeToo is accused of murdering his girlfriend and beheading her with electrical noticed

A Navy veteran who was as soon as touted by Donald Trump as a #MeToo ‘sufferer’ has been accused of murdering his girlfriend and beheading her with an electrical noticed. 

Joseph Roberts, 42, was arrested on September 7 following the stunning dying of his girlfriend Rachel Imani Buckner. 

The latest legislation faculty grad’s physique was discovered dismembered alongside the shoreline of California‘s Alameda Nation, The Messenger experiences. 

Her stays had been wrapped in plastic with duct tape which is the place Robert’s DNA was allegedly found. 

‘Joseph’s DNA was on the tape that wrapped her physique, which meant he was conscious she was lifeless, he was conscious she was dismembered,’ detective Robert Hansen says. 

Joseph Roberts, 42, was arrested on September 7 following the stunning homicide of his girlfriend

Rachel Imani Buckner was discovered wrapped in plastic and duct tape

‘He took an energetic position in wrapping her physique, concealing it in plastic rubbish baggage.’ 

After spending time serving within the Navy, Roberts was as soon as on monitor to grow to be the primary individual in his household to obtain a school diploma. 

However in 2013, he was suspended from Savannah State College after being accused of on-line verbal and sexual harassment. 

Roberts denied the allegations and went on to assert he was ‘denied due course of’.

He shared his story with Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Secretary of Schooling, as a part of a collection of listening periods on the Title IX pointers round sexual harassment on school grounds.

Roberts stated on the time it meant a ‘huge deal’ to him to have the ability to converse out. 

‘Not simply due to the scenario, simply due to the place I used to be at in that stage of my restoration from this,’ Roberts stated. 

‘The one factor I may do is current my story. I simply hope and pray that she listens.’

In an episode of ABC’s Nightline, Roberts shared his frustration at being handled in a manner he perceived to be unfair. 

He later returned to Savannah, Georgia, the place he had been finding out and spoke of the worry he held for ever stepping again on campus after being abruptly kicked out. 

Roberts shared his story with Betsy DeVos, Trump’s Secretary of Schooling, as a part of a collection of listening periods on the Title IX pointers round sexual harassment on school grounds

The latest legislation faculty grad’s physique was discovered dismembered alongside the shoreline of California ‘s Alameda Nation 

‘An e-mail got here from the Workplace of Pupil Affairs. You might be hereby summarily suspended and if you happen to step foot on campus, you get the specter of expulsion and arrest.

‘A pair minutes later, there was a campus-wide e-mail alert with — my image was virtually like a mug shot: ‘Should you see me — instantly report back to Public Security’.’ 

In sharing his expertise on YouTube’s The Distinctive Conservative Present, he relived what it was wish to be marched off campus after two feminine college students complained. 

Roberts, who left the college simply three weeks earlier than commencement, claimed they statements made about him had been ‘whole lies’.  

‘They stated issues like they had been afraid for his or her lives.’    

He stated the occasions almost value him his life after all of it acquired an excessive amount of. 

‘I awoke not responsive, surrounded by EMTs and firefighters with an empty bottle of alcohol and a bottle of drugs… suicide try. That was the worst,’ he stated. 

He ultimately accomplished his research on-line and enrolled in legislation faculty. 

Roberts is but to enter a plea on his homicide case and is presently being held in Santa Rita County Jail with out bail.