Man Who Said He Dismembered Wife Ordered To Treatment

OLATHE, KS — Justin Rey has been found not competent for trial in a case that involved his admission to dismembering his wife.

Rey, who is homeless, told police that he cut up his wife's body and then slept with the remains in a Kansas storage unit along with their two children.

A Kansas judge on Thursday ruled that his mental state made him unfit for trial and ordered him to a hospital for psychiatric treatment. Rey is charged in Kansas and Missouri with child endangerment. He's also charged with abandonment of corpse in Missouri. He isn't charged in his wife's killing.

Investigators say Rey took photographs of himself with his wife's body before dismembering her and taking her remains to the storage unit in Lenexa, Kansas. Rey said she died during childbirth and that she killed herself.

He's also charged in the death of a California man whose body hasn't been found.

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