Robert Keith Tincher III was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole this week.
Tincher had told police that she fell in the shower and that he decided she was brain dead and disposed her body in the freezer.
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Robert Keith Tincher III, 31 of Armuchee, pleaded guilty this week to killing his 82 year-old grandmother, Doris Cumming, and storing her body in a freezer for months.
Cumming’s body was recovered from the freezer in large plastic bags with numerous broken bones.
Authorities said that Cumming was still alive when she was placed in the freezer.
Tincher pleaded guilty to malice murder, felony murder, kidnapping and various other charges. However, he denied that he killed her during the plea hearing. Tincher told the judge, “I want to get out of Floyd County and get on with the rest of my life.”
Judge Billy Sparks then told Ticher, “you’re aware that means spending it in prison?”
Judge Sparks later took the guilty plea after a series of other questions.
Sentencing is scheduled for December 11th
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Robert Keith Tincher III, 29 of Rome, was arrested this week after reports said he murdered an 82 year-old woman at a home on Hennon Drive in 2021.
Reports said that a Tincher grabbed the fallen body of the woman, placed her in plastic bags, and dragged her throughout the home, breaking numerous bones of the victim.
He is then accused of placing her in a chest freezer inside the home, breaking her back in the process. He told police that the woman was still breathing when he locked her in the freezer.
Police went on to say that Tincher concealed the body for close to four months. Reports continued to say that Tincher eventually moved the freezer, continuing to conceal the body.
Tincher told authorities that there was no altercation with the victim at the time of the murder.
Tincher is charged with malice murder, felony murder, concealing the death of another, aggravated battery and failure to appear.
