Headless Body: CT Man Sentenced For Brutal Murder Of Girlfriend

A Connecticut man has been sentenced to prison after being found guilty by a jury of killing a 33-year-old woman and cutting off her head and dumping her body in a park.

Miles Johnson
Photo Credit: *Waterbury Police Department*

Kathy Reakes

08/06/2023 10:30 a.m.

New Haven County resident Miles Johnson, age 24, of Waterbury, was sentenced to 55 years in prison on Wednesday, Aug. 2, for the July 2020 murder of Rachel Lerato Sebetlela, said Waterbury State’s Attorney Maureen Platt.

Johnson was convicted in April by a Superior Court jury for the murder and other crimes.

According to evidence introduced at trial, the victim was stabbed multiple times in the torso by the Johnson at Sebetlela's Waterbury home on Friday, July 10, 2020.

A hiker found her headless body wrapped in blankets and garbage bags in Litchfield County at Black Rock State Park in Watertown on Saturday, Sept. 12, 2020.

The victim’s wrists, legs, and feet were bound with duct tape.

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