Texas Woman Guilty of Dismembering Evidence

(Austin, Texas) A 24-year-old local woman, Laura Hall, was convicted by a jury Friday for her part in dismembering the body of a woman, Jennifer Cave, killed in 2005. The jury reconvenes this week to determine punishment for felony tampering with physical evidence and misdemeanor hindering apprehension.

Hall was accused of helping dismember Cave's body after Colton Pitonyak shot and killed Cave on Aug. 17, 2005. Cave, a legal assistant, was a friend of Pitonyak's. Hall and Pitonyak, 24, fled to Mexico, leaving Cave's body behind in the bathtub of Pitonyak's West Campus condominium. Police expelled them from Mexico on Aug. 23, 2005.

Pitonyak, whose trial was in January, was convicted of murder and sentenced to 55 years in prison.

Hall likely sealed her convictions when she bragged about dismembering Cave's body while in jail.

When sentenced, Hall faces a possible 10 years for the tampering conviction and one year for the hindering conviction.

As a first impression, Hall doesn't seem like a very nice or smart person. She hangs around with people who commit murder and helps dismember bodies and, astonishingly, brags about it. When she completes her stint in prison, hopefully she doesn't show up as my neighbor.