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A man who used to live in Greenup County is behind bars in St. Johns County Florida, accused of the most heinous crime the sheriff there says he's ever seen.

"How anybody could mutilate somebody to that degree is beyond me," said Sheriff David Shoar, of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Department.

He said, not only did former Greenup County resident Timothy Dale Rose kill his girlfriend, 48 year old Jan Dunn Keller, but he decapitated her, dismembered her, and buried her body parts in an undeveloped section of the subdivision where the couple lived.

Keller was a third grade teacher in the area, and her coworkers got suspicious and called police when she didn't show up for the first day of school last week. Last Tuesday, investigators found Rose slumped on top of a shotgun inside the couple's home, suffering from an apparent drug overdose. They also spotted a rolled up tarp in the garage. After obtaining a search warrant, they found part of Keller's body inside.

Deputies found a shovel with fresh dirt on it in Rose's pickup. Investigators say he's been talkative but not particularly helpful. Meanwhile, the Putnam County School District where Keller worked is grieving a devastating loss.

"She was just a really really nice person and they all took it quite hard for a tragedy like this. Especially the brutalization that she endured," said Media Relations Officer Kevin Kelshaw of the St. Johns County Sheriff's Office.

Kelshaw says Rose has been arrested by the sheriff's department there three separate times in the past three years-twice for domestic issues between him and his former wife, and once for aggrivated battery of two people at his work. He is being held in the St. Johns County jail without bond.