‘Cannibal killer’ Joseph Oberhansley found guilty of butchering ex with a saw and ‘eating her brain and heart’

But he changed his story, claiming he was confused after being knocked out by two mystery ntruders.

His lawyers claimed it was the two unknown burglars who had killed Tammy Jo and removed her organs while leaving him with only minor injuries.

But Clark County prosecutor Jeremy Mull told the jury Oberhansley was the only one in the house.

He said: "She suffered so many indignities that night.

"She was terrified, she was stabbed, she was dismembered, she was eaten and she was raped.

"And the justice for each of those acts of indignities is important if it is proven. It’s what justice demands."

Jurors found him guilty of murder and burglary but acquitted him of rape.

After the trial it emerged Oberhansley had killed another girlfriend years earlier.

Before moving to Jeffersonville, he had served 12 years at a Utah prison for killing his girlfriend and shooting his mother.

He also shot himself but survived, though the bullet remained lodged in his brain, and was convicted of manslaughter.

He arrived in Southern Indiana in July 2012, just over two years before killing Tammy Jo.

Justice in this case was hit by years of delays for legal issues and mental health assessments.

He rejected his own lawyers' defense of insanity and was put on trial for murder in 2018.

But that trial was halted after a juror was caught discussing Oberhansley's past crimes.

After another spell in a psychiatric unit, he was declared competent and his second trial began on September 11, exactly six years after the murder.