Fenton Couple Indicted on Charges From Ohio Murder

The man accused of his ex-girlfriend said she begged him to kill her and that two Fenton residents were not involved.

Matthew Puccio, 25, of Urbana, OH, said an argument started after he confronted Jessica Sacco about text messages she'd sent saying she wanted him dead, according to the Dayton Daily News.

“She was pleading with me to slash her throat, slash her wrists, do something, and I told her, ‘No. I can’t do that to you,’ ” Puccio said told the Dayton Daily News in a jailhouse interview.

“And she told me to stab her then, so I just held my hand above her stomach. She grabbed my wrist and pulled it into her stomach,” he said.

Puccio said decided to cut up Sacco’s body because he “was scared,” according to WHIOTV.com. He said removed two legs and an arm, then stopped because “I just couldn’t do it anymore.”

(Click here to see WHIO.TV.com's video of the Puccio interview)

About 12 hours elapsed from when the argument began to Sacco’s death, Puccio said and then he called his Kandis Forney, 25 and Andrew Forney, 26, and told them what he’d done.

According to the Dayton Daily News, Puccio said he dismembered the body alone and said the Forneys shouldn’t be punished, because “they had nothing to do with this.”

Police have said Fenton husband and wife Andrew and Kandis Forney helped Puccio try to cover up the murder and that Andrew helped Puccio dismember the body.

Andrew P. Forney was indicted Thursday on one count each of failure to report a crime, abuse of a corpse, gross abuse of a corpse, tampering with evidence, obstructing justice, complicity to tampering with evidence and two counts of possession of criminal tools, reported the Urbana Daily Citizen. Kandis J. Forney, 25, was indicted on two counts each of failure to report a crime, obstructing justice, possession of criminal tools and one count of complicity to tampering with evidence.