'Clean this up': Girlfriend forced to help wrap headless boyfriend in 'carpeting and an air mattress' before propping him up in closet after pal killed him, cops say

An Arizona pistillate was forced to assistance wrapper her headless boyfriend successful "carpeting and an aerial mattress" earlier propping his dismembered assemblage up successful a closet aft his pal killed him with a hatchet, cops say.

Christopher Ebanks, 32, is charged with execution and kidnapping successful transportation with the brutal May 7 slaying successful Phoenix. A probable origin affidavit for his arrest, which was obtained by Law&Crime, says Ebanks ordered the victim's girlfriend to assistance fell his assemblage and grounds of the sidesplitting aft she watched Ebanks stab him repeatedly with a "triangular ax-like blade" astatine the couple's apartment, per cops.

"The fishy [Ebanks] directed her to assistance with cleaning the flat and concealing the body," the affidavit alleges. "The unfortunate had initially been placed successful the bathtub earlier aboriginal being wrapped up and moved into a closet."

Phoenix Police say Ebanks was called by the fellow to travel implicit and assistance him get rent wealth aft helium and the woman began warring implicit making payments. The mates allegedly met up with Ebanks and kept "arguing implicit rent money" erstwhile a carnal altercation occurred betwixt them successful beforehand of Ebanks.

Upset with seeing the fellow getting physical, Ebanks challenged him "to combat an existent man," according to the affidavit. As things escalated, the woman said she saw Ebanks propulsion retired the hatchet and stab her fellow "repeatedly."

After doing this, Ebanks told the pistillate that they "needed to cleanable this up," according to the affidavit. The 2 of them allegedly utilized cleaning products, knives, towels, an hold cord, carpeting, and the aerial mattress to fell the boyfriend's assemblage and evidence.

"The unfortunate was wrapped successful carpeting and an aerial mattress and bound with a achromatic hold cord and further items," the affidavit says. "The unfortunate appeared to beryllium dismembered (missing caput and hands)."

Ebanks allegedly stuffed the missing caput and hands into a suitcase and near the apartment. He ordered the woman to get into his car with him and spell to his apartment, wherever she was "forced to ablution astatine knife/gunpoint successful an effort to destruct evidence," according to the affidavit.

Police accidental the woman told her begetter astir what happened and helium notified authorities. This led to cops searching Ebanks' apartment, wherever they allegedly recovered the suitcase with the boyfriend's remains.

Ebanks was arrested and charged with 1 number of first-degree execution and 1 number of kidnapping. He has refused to talk to constabulary and is being held connected a $1 cardinal bond.