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   From: daily.beaner@gazette.com   
      
   A Mount Vernon, Washington, man is charged with premeditated   
   murder after investigators said he decapitated his girlfriend in   
   front of a 3-year-old girl.   
      
   Timothy Paul Hernandez, 32, was charged this week with first-   
   degree murder and is being held on $1 million bail.   
      
   Mount Vernon police were called to the 1200 block of North 18th   
   Street on Sunday afternoon. Hernandez and his girlfriend lived   
   with his parents, and they called police after finding her about   
   12:45 p.m.   
      
   They told investigators Hernandez and his girlfriend were   
   verbally arguing before going to bed that Saturday night. They   
   left for church sometime between 9:30 and 10 a.m., and when they   
   returned home, they found the woman dead.   
      
   Hernandez was located at the Cascade Mall in Burlington with the   
   3-year-old daughter he shared with the victim, police said.   
      
   “Timothy advised that he had spoken with God, who told him to   
   strike down his girlfriend … because she did not repent,” a   
   detective wrote in charging documents. “Timothy stated that he   
   struck her down, and caused for her head to be removed from her   
   body.”   
      
   Investigators said Hernandez quoted two Bible verses to them,   
   including a passage from the Book of Revelations.   
      
   “Each of the verses that were quoted had passages in them that   
   spoke about women who did not follow God’s word, so God stuck   
   them down.”   
      
   Hernandez told investigators he was not crazy and stated that a   
   crazy person would not tell the truth, investigators said.   
      
   Detectives found a large butcher knife in the home’s sink and   
   bloody clothing and used a chemical to illuminate bloody   
   footprints around the body that led into the kitchen to the sink   
   where the knife was located. The victim had multiple stab wounds.   
      
   Charging documents also give disturbing details about the 3-year-   
   old observing the crime scene. Hernandez is scheduled to be   
   arraigned Sept. 6 in Skagit County Superior Court.   
      
   In Washington, only an aggravated first-degree murder conviction   
   leads to the death penalty. However, in 2014 Gov. Jay Inslee   
   pledged to halt executions while he’s in office. Inslee was   
   reelected in 2017 to a four-year term.   
      
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