The body of a slain Utah woman was found in a cardboard box in the back of her estranged boyfriend’s car after she died from “extreme trauma.”
Summer Tatiana Roney, 30, was found in Jacob Holt Johnson’s vehicle outside a Bluffdale convenience store on Dec. 31.
The vehicle was diagonally parked outside the store with Johnson unconscious inside. The lifeless body was in a cardboard box in the trunk.
“Officers opened the trunk to check on the welfare of the female and found that she had an extension cord around her neck and multiple bruises and lacerations to her head, arms, and legs.”
“The female was unresponsive and cold to the touch.”
Inside the SUV also were several hatchets, a knife, a steel hammer, a gas tank, and bleach.
Police searched the 40-year-old suspect's Herriman home and found blood throughout the home, from rooms to the entrance, basement, and garage.
The medical examiner’s office determined that Roney died from “extreme” blunt force trauma.
Friends of the victim recalled how her convicted felon boyfriend used to abuse her, physically and verbally, and that he had “recently put her in a chokehold, nearly killing her.”
