Looks like the ex hubby did it. At least from the evidence they have on him.

http://www.journal-news.net/News/articles.asp?articleID=7278


wonder why? hmmm.....

Well, most murders take place for one of the following reasons:

1. Profit
2. Passion
3. Compulsion

I vote it was #2. WV doesn't have a death penalty either, so the guy who did it will be living off of the tax payers for a long, long time.

Finally! The woman will be put to rest. I tell ya! geesh.


BERKELEY COUNTY, WV - It's been more than a year and a half since the body of a Berkeley County woman was found dismembered and dumped in Back Creek.

Now Debra Fielder's remains will finally be laid to rest.

On Monday a West Virginia judge ruled the remains are to be released in two weeks.

Fielder's body has been at the state medical examiners office since it was discovered in August of 2006.

Last November a jury convicted her ex-husband - Stephen Fielder - with her murder.

The prosecuting attorney said the remains were kept so long because they were needed as evidence.

The remains will be released to friends.

Prosecutors say part of the reason it took more than a month to realize Debra Fielder was missing was because she had no next of kin.

"She had no other family,” says Pamela Games-Neeley, the Berkeley County prosecuting attorney. “There are individuals who have qualified to handle her estate, and they have been given permission to either cremate her or bury her."

Dennis and Linda Johnson of Martinsburg were two of Fielder's closest friends, and they will be handling her estate.

Neither could be reached for comment.

How sad, a tragic story on many levels. Hopefully she had some element of joy in her life. What a horrible death and resolution to one's life. The sense of loneliness or lack of connection is so sad.
Thankfully, she can now be laid to rest, and have a final place.

Indeed. Tragic on many levels. Just the whole idea that an ATTORNEY in WV truly thought he could get away with this, to the extent that he did not even bother to hide the evidence or his connection to it is very disturbing.

One thing I did learn in WV: if you do not have friends or family who are local, make it look as if you do. For my "closest relative" when I was at city hospital, I used a very distant cousin I found while looking for my family. He happens to have the same surname as yours truly......and the good folk at the hospital DEMANDED to know who he was! Just a male relative with my last name, I told them. They suddenly started treating me as if my drug allergies mattered and as if my mysterious internal bleeding and diagnosis for same mattered. Before I used him as a contact, I didn't matter to them. This attorney was counting on not being caught because he did not think his former spouse mattered to anyone.

yea. know how that feels. I have no family anymore and I wonder what will happen farther down the road when I get elderly.

join the club. maybe I'll say--hey, I know dragon--she's as close as kin..

It's a good idea. It's a well known fact that people with family get reated better by hospitals and nursing homes that people without families.

Its amazing what the fear of a drop in visit can change. No visit = no care. Knew someone that got admitted into a room at the Hospital and it was a double. We first visit and the 'roomate was virtually untouched. Next day we visit again and get to know the roomie and start to question their care (being virtually ignored by staff the whole time we visit) and soon enough roomie starts to get paid attention to. Guess after we got discharged they went back to the same old treatment??... Its sad to live a life and know for whatever reason sooner or later you run out of anyone that would give a crap if you existed, no family left make a circle of friends....

Drop in visits. Oh yes. I would not even be alive right now if I had not had a drop in visitor when I was at City Hospital.