Kansas man accused in voodoo beheading of man with guitar string pleads not guilty to murder

An alleged voodoo worshipper accused of beheading a Kansas man with a guitar string has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Topeka police say James Paul Harris, 29, ghoulishly severed the head of 49-year-old James Gerety in 2011 before packing it away in a draw-string bag to talk to, the Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Gerety's partial remains were found a year later in Carbondale, about 18 miles south of Harris' home. Harris' former girlfriend, Bobbie Williams, testified last month that he used the wire string as a garrote to decapitate Gerety after first shooting him in the stomach and torturing him for two days. A police detective also testified that Williams told him Harris practiced voodoo and liked to talk to the head he kept in the canvas bag.

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