 Instead, he cut off Bonnie's head and kicked it a few feet away. Then he had an urge to cut and mutilate the corpse. He said that he threw the knife and the clothing into the woods, but they were never found. Melqua signed a 45-page second confession about Bonnie's murder. But then, as soon as he had an attorney, immediately denied it, claiming that he had been hypnotized into confessing by John Reed.