GUILTY PA - Diamond Williams, 31, found dismembered, Philadelphia, 13 July 2013

[Filly]

Well if the person can't move the body otherwise (i.e. woman that can't carry/transport a 200 lb males body) then sometimes dismemberment is just plain practical.

But in this case they do seem pretty weird. The girlfriend comes home, realizes he has a corpse in the bedroom, and she goes to sleep on the couch while he is dragging the body around? And then a day later she hears him dismembering the body so they go to the store to buy cleaning supplies and then go to a cookout???

Obviously these folks were a little different. If she is charged she will claim she was afraid of him which will be utter BS.

They are not different and they are not weird when you consider where this crime took place. Now, even the folks in Strawberry Mansion freaked about the manner in which this poor woman was disposed of.

No doubt she was afraid of him, but legally I believe if she could get out of the house and away she's an accessory? Per my DD and her law friends. Who BTW attended the rally. Personally I'd say she was afraid of losing her man. Then again I've never lived with a lunatic.

Benefit if the doubt is she told the son to call????????

 

[Filly]

I'll do my best to dig through the articles and links on a sex worker board i'm on .. to see if i can find the article where it details that they met a week prior. I did mistake that it was already posted on here. Most trans that are sex workers, do not hide if they are still with the birth genitals. Diamond wasn't new to this game so I don't for a second believe she hid it. It takes a certain kind of psychopath (or is it sociopath?) to dismember a body. That means there's no empathy or connection to the person or feelings. Not that any drug is an excuse, but I am wondering if there is more to the story. I wonder if he was actually someone she scored with and they got high and maybe if that's the case - he wouldn't know she's trans - and if he went to sexually assault her, he would find out and become enraged. It's hard telling but I sincerely doubt any trick would cop to saying he knew she was transexual or let it be known that he was "willing to pay for" a transexual hooker. It's all about the ego with clients anyway, add in getting "caught" and they really turn up their ego and pride factors.

i'm curious on the past of the trick, his criminal history that is.

Bam! Right again, sister. There was an article in our paper today although brief, but a Transgender woman saw him on TV and freaked. The same trick almost killed her a few years ago.

This guy was no virgin in this game. Plus these girls work the same corner or area all the time when they are out there. If that's the first time he ever saw Diamond he's as blind as Stevie Wonder.

I'll find the link for ya.

 

[ArianeEmory]

(Bleh, flashing back to Venus Xtravaganza in Paris is Burning.)

RIP.

 

[Jan]

How very sad all the way around. I wish people didn't feel a need to sell their bodies for whatever reason. And I wish there weren't others who would take advantage of them and hurt or kill them. Then the final insult, dismembering the body. I can't imagine how any human being could do such horrible things. Some people must have no feelings at all for others. That's just so hard for me to comprehend! I have always tried to help others and I am heavily into animal rescue and it bothers me when anyone has to suffer, be it human or animal. Its hard to swallow that some people can make others suffer and not even feel bad about it.

 

[Ausgirl]

Thank you soooooooooo much, Ausgirl. I just saw the title of the thread changed and smiled a bit.

FWIW and I think you all know I meant no disrespect with the title. I actually meant to bring light to it before I even knew Diamond was Transgender.

You're a good heart, Ausgirl and yes Diamind does deserve dignity.

I do know you meant no disrespect, Filly! :heart:

I was truly hoping this poor young person wouldn't become another unidentified. So glad an ID was made.

I have lived and worked with transgender folks, and know very well how many challenges they face, every single day... and how much pain many carry around inside. Diamond was a fighter, trying to become who she really was. Her killer made sure she'll never achieve those goals.


I hope he rots.

 

[Filly]

This is the article in the paper today where the woman remembered her run-in with the murderer several years ago.

The article is actually about how the media perceives, and reports about acts of violence towards anyone Transgender. This reporter is new to Philadelphia and she's hasn't been scoring any points with alot of our fellow citizens. Hey, give her a medal for trying, but, but, but, but at least she could have gotten Diamond's last name right. Now that would be a great start. That is unless Diamond changed from Williams to Woods any nobody told her friends and this woman found out? *sigh*




http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20130725_Diamond_Woods_case_reminds_us_of_work_to_be_done.html


Worth a read for sure.

 

[jellybeanz]

RIP Diamond

 

[ArianeEmory]

Can someone confirm if this is the same person as the victim?

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - SC SC - Diamond Williams, 16, Lake City, 21 Jul 2013

I've skimmed several articles but I can't find an age listed, was our victim here really only 16?

 

[Filly]

Can someone confirm if this is the same person as the victim?

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - SC SC - Diamond Williams, 16, Lake City, 21 Jul 2013

I've skimmed several articles but I can't find an age listed, was our victim here really only 16?

AE, no, but thank you for that. Our woman from Philly was much older.

There's a young woman in Baltimore by the same name who was tragically murdered as well.

 

[ArianeEmory]

Seemingly not. Apparently this is a bad week for that name:

Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community - View Single Post - SC SC - Diamond Williams, 16, Lake City, 21 Jul 2013

 

[ArianeEmory]

AE, no, but thank you for that. I was going to call attention to the young lady who was murdered as well. Our woman from Philly was much older.

Filly, there seem to be two by this name murdered and one MISSING. For a total of three.

 

[OkieGranny]

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/2...an_s_death_brings_long_overdue_awareness.html

Deja Alvarez has lost count of the times she has come to the Criminal Justice Center on Filbert Street... Each time, the case against the man accused of stabbing and dismembering her friend Diamond Williams, on July 14, 2013, was continued for one reason or another. Mostly because lawyers and doctors were trying to figure out whether Charles Nolan Sargent was sane enough to stand trial in the brutal slaying of a transgender woman whose grandmother said was born Mark William Woods.

Despite Sargent's refusal to participate in a psychiatric evaluation and his lawyer's lingering doubts about his competence, Sargent was finally found competent in July, a year after he was accused of the grisly death.

And then yesterday, 15 months after he allegedly hacked 31-year-old Williams to pieces, Sargent entered Courtroom 306 for a preliminary hearing.

 

[Richrd]

Case Advanced to Upper Court of Common Pleas

Charles N. Sargent - Murder of Diamond Williams - Philadelphia - 13 Jun 2013

Philadelphia County is in South-Eastern, PA.

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[JusticeWillBeServed]

https://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/CPReport.ashx?docketNumber=CP-51-CR-0011441-2014

The trial is currently scheduled for December 11th.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

http://www.epgn.com/news/local/13114-trial-to-begin-next-week-for-2013-trans-murder

In July 2013, Charles Sargent allegedly stabbed Diamond Williams to death, dismembered her corpse with an ax and deposited her body parts in a vacant lot in the Strawberry Mansion section of the city.

Barring unforeseen circumstances, Sargent’s jury trial will begin 10 a.m. Feb. 26 in Room 807 of the Criminal Justice Center, 1315 Filbert St., with Anhalt presiding.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/02/28/murder-trial-transgender-woman/

The murder trial for a man accused of dismembering a transgender woman nearly five years ago started this week with the suspect representing himself in court.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Testimony Continues In Trial Of Man Accused Of Killing Transgender Woman

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2018/03/01/testimony-continues-in-trial-of-man-accused-of-killing-transgender-woman/

Several police officers took the stand. One testified that while transporting Sargent to police headquarters, Sargent told him he committed a homicide. The defendant pressed him further on the comment, trying to point out that no one else heard the comment.

Two detectives also testified to statements, one saying that Sargent told him he killed Diamond Williams, and that he regretted it happened.

Sargent briefly crossed, with questions about when the statements were taken.

http://www.epgn.com/news/local/13131-gruesome-details-dominate-trans-murder-trial

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

http://www.epgn.com/news/breaking-news/13155-killer-of-trans-woman-convicted-of-first-degree-murder

After deliberating only 28 minutes, a Philadelphia jury handed down a first-degree murder conviction for Charles N. Sargent, who brutally stabbed to death trans woman Diamond Williams five years ago.

The verdict was rendered March 6 during the seventh day of Sargent's murder trial at the Criminal Justice Center in Center City.

Common Pleas Judge Diana L. Anhalt sentenced Sargent, 48, to life imprisonment for the murder conviction plus an additional 6-12 years for related crimes.

"Your crime was so egregious and horrible," Anhalt told Sargent. "Diamond Williams was an important and valuable part of the world. And you wiped her away. I hope I don't remember you but I will always remember her."