'Folded her up into a suitcase': Boyfriend stowed dead girlfriend away in closet and then went to buy lottery tickets after killing her for 'fussing at him'

A Georgia antheral told cops helium killed his girlfriend aft she started "disrespecting him by calling him vulgar names" — beating and strangling her to decease — earlier wrapping her up successful a comforter and stuffing the woman into a suitcase. He past near for enactment and "went to bargain lottery tickets," according to prosecutors.

Frederick Durham, of Upson County, was recovered blameworthy past week of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and concealing the decease of different successful transportation with the brutal slaying, according to the Griffin Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office.

Durham was sentenced to service beingness successful situation without parole. He was accused of sidesplitting his girlfriend, Margaret Dubinion, successful October 2023.

"[Dubinion] was astatine her location successful Thomaston with the defendant, her live-in boyfriend," a press release from the DA's bureau says. "Per the Defendant's ain confession, helium claimed that Ms. Dubinion was disrespecting him by calling him vulgar names and that she would not halt fussing astatine him. His effect was to clasp her down with his near manus portion helium bushed her astir the caput with his close hand."

Love existent crime? Sign up for our newsletter, The Law&Crime Docket, to get the latest real-life transgression stories delivered close to your inbox.

Dubinion suffered galore injuries during Durham's vicious assault, including bleeding connected the brain, swollen eyes, breached ribs, and breached cervical bones. He strangled her to decease aft the beatdown and past "folded her up into a suitcase," per the DA's office.

"After leaving the suitcase successful the closet, [Durham] went to work, went to bargain lottery tickets and past went to Atlanta successful the victim's car," according to prosecutors. "He told the constabulary helium was not definite if she was live oregon dormant erstwhile helium enactment her successful the suitcase, but erstwhile pushed connected the issue, would not springiness the household bid with a definite answer."

Dubinion's relatives had been the ones who archetypal notified constabulary aft she disappeared connected a Friday, Oct. 20, 2023. A payment cheque was conducted that nighttime astatine the location wherever she was surviving with Durham, and neither she nor Durham were present.

The household went implicit to the couple's flat and recovered Dubinion stowed successful the closet the pursuing morning.

"This suspect had a malignant and abandoned heart," Senior Assistant District Attorney Audrey D. Holliday said successful a connection aft Durham's conviction. "He near Ms. Dubinion successful a suitcase and refused to springiness this household an reply connected whether she was live oregon dormant erstwhile helium did so. I americium grateful the household helped america bring Frederick Durham to justness by their persistence successful searching for Ms. Dubinion and by testifying against the Defendant."

Holliday added, "This was an evil enactment from a idiosyncratic who had nary compassion for this family."