1, 2015.Įventually, she was put in the trunk of Belcher’s car, and he drove her out to Talladega National Forest. This fell on deaf ears the torture only escalated. At the same time, Samantha said she “loved and forgave” the people that were hurting her, promising to tell nobody if she was let go. Belcher said they had to kill her, because she’d threatened to call the police about her car being stolen. Her fingernails, toenails, and several teeth were ripped out with pliers. She was forcibly stripped, hogtied, and mercilessly beaten for hours. She was taken to Belcher’s house, and that is where the torture began. And that, apparently is when they decided to kill her because Michael feared that if she called the police, they’d find all the meth. She accused the others of stealing her car, and threatened to call the police if they didn’t return it. It took Samantha a long time to realize that her car was missing, but when she finally noticed, she was angry. He then punctured the car’s fuel tank and set it on fire. He grabbed her car keys out of her purse while she was using the bathroom, and then he drove her car out to a bridge where he removed the convertor and battery from the car. Steven decided that they should steal the catalytic converter and battery from Samantha’s vehicle. They were hanging out and getting high at a repair shop owned by Belcher’s dad.Ĭhylli Bruce (left) testified that she ripped out Samantha's fingernails with pliers. Chylli, Steven, and Belcher were all charged with Capital Murder soon afterward.Īccording to Chylli and Steven, the murder occurred on November 1, and the whole thing began while they were all sitting around doing meth. Chylli and Steven admitted that they were involved in Payne's death, but they insisted that Belcher was the person who'd actually killed her. They both said that a man named Belcher was responsible for the murder. Investigators met up with Steven and Chylli, and asked them about Samantha Payne. It should be noted that Chylli was only 18 years old at this time. The two were Steven George and Chylli Bruce. The two were searched, and he found meth on them, so they were arrested. He noticed them because they were completely covered in blood he found that suspicious. He said that he’d recently arrested a suspicious couple near that area. Payne was founded in Talladega National Forest, tied to a tree.Īfter it was reported that a body had been found in Talladega National Forest, a police officer contacted investigators and told them something strange. However, he wrote in his report that the circumstances of her discovery seemed to suggest that Samantha had been murdered. “We just didn’t have enough of her remains to identify why she died,” he later testified. Dunton could not determine the cause or manner of Payne's death. The autopsy was difficult because the majority of her internal organs were missing. Steven Dunton performed an autopsy on Samantha Payne soon after she was recovered.
9, the same day Samantha’s tortured remains were discovered in Tuscaloosa County.ĭr. For reasons unclear, the mother Susi Payne did not actually report her daughter missing until Nov. Samantha never returned from the Halloween party. That was the last time her mother saw Samantha alive. It also happened to be her 29th birthday. She told her mother that she was going to a Halloween party. Her throat was slashed open and her skull was detached from her body. He'd discovered a woman tied to a tree with barbed wire, completely naked. He soon contacted law enforcement to report what he'd found. That same morning, around 9:00 AM, a man found Samantha in the Talladega National Forest.
Samantha Payne, a 29-year-old woman from Alabama, was reported missing on Nov.
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