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Canada body-parts murder victim identified
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Sept. 30 (UPI) -- A New Zealander who stored his girlfriend's corpse on dry ice for a year at a Southern California hotel has pleaded guilty to felony drug charges.
Stephen David Royds was arrested in March at the Fairmont Hotel in Newport Beach, Calif., after police found him with 54 grams of cocaine, The Orange County Register reported.
When police searched his hotel room, they found the body of 33-year-old Monique Felicia Trepp in a plastic tub, preserved with dry ice, the newspaper reported.
Trepp reportedly died of a drug-and-alcohol overdose almost one year before police discovered her body.
Royds, a one-time championship skier, faces four years in prison for the two drug charges to which he pleaded guilty Monday. He was not charged with failing to report Trepp's death, but he pleaded guilty to a pair of felony
controlled substance counts and was sentenced to four years in prison.
Farrah Emami, spokeswoman for the Orange County district attorney, said Royds will likely spend a little more than three years behind bars.
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