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Severed head mystery solved in L.A.
3/10/2014 11:52:31 PM
- Gabriel Campos-Martinez is charged with killing his former roommate
- A dog walker found Hervey Medellin's head near the Hollywood sign in January 2012
- Investigators have not revealed a motive for the gruesome killing
Los Angeles (CNN) -- The discovery two years ago of a man's decapitated head near the Hollywood sign began a murder mystery that police now believed is solved.
Gabriel Campos-Martinez, 38, was charged Monday in the death of 66-year-old Hervey Medellin, whose head and several other body parts were found by a woman walking her dog in Hollywood's Griffith Park on January 17, 2012, according to the Los Angeles district attorney.
Campos-Martinez and Medellin shared a Hollywood apartment for about six months, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Bobby Grace said.
A coroner concluded that Medellin had died as a result of asphyxiation and ruled the death a homicide, Grace said.
Investigators have not revealed a motive for the gruesome killing, which police believe occurred around December 27, 2011.
A murder charge was filed on Monday against Campos-Martinez, who was arrested in San Antonio, Texas, Sunday. He is being held on $1 million bail and awaiting an extradition hearing.
The dog walker whose golden retriever, Ollie, discovered the head near a trail below the Hollywood sign said she at first thought the head was a movie prop.
"Our assumption was that there was always people filming up there, and it was a prop," Lauren Kornberg said in 2012. "We walked down the ravine and got closer and realized it was a freshly severed human head."
Cadaver dogs eventually found several hands and feet -- but no torso -- in the wooded area, which is near the home of actor Brad Pitt.
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