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Joseph Roche Man Charged With Beating His Wife To Death With A RockMEMPHIS, IN – This is one horrendous story involving a man who was arrested on Tuesday, charged with bashing his wife’s head in with a rock.

Police say it all started with an argument between 44-year-old Joseph Roche and his wife, 46-year-old Brenda Roche. They had been drinking at the home of Brenda’s daughter, and got into a physical altercation after Brenda accused Joseph of cheating on her.

Brenda ran out of the home and tried to leave in her car, but Joseph used a box cutter to cut her and a large rock from the driveway, estimated to be around 25-pounds, to bash the car. Brenda then tried running away on foot, but Joseph hit her in the head with the rock, knocking her to the ground.

Steven Duncan, Jr., a neighbor across the street who heard the commotion, ran over to see what was happening and described a horrifying scene.

“All of a sudden he hit her a couple of times and she went down and he picked up a rock and started smashing her head in and I said, ‘you gotta stop,’” said Duncan.

That’s when Joseph attacked him, kicking him in the face before returning to his wife.

“The last time I saw her alive she sat up and then he hit her again with a rock. Her daughter watched the whole thing and the grandbabies – little children saw it,” Duncan said.

When police arrived on the scene, Roche had blood on his arms and head and told an officer, “I’m the man you’re looking for.” Police found Brenda still breathing in a ditch, suffering from severe injuries to her face, head and neck. She would be pronounced dead at the hospital. Joseph was arrested and charged with murder, domestic battery, three counts of battery, and invasion of privacy.

Joseph has quite the criminal history that, not surprisingly, involves past domestic violence charges against Brenda. In fact, at the time of her murder, Brenda had a protective order against Joseph that was issued in January. Police say the couple had just recently started seeing each other again after several months of living apart.

In 1995, Roche served six years after he pled guilty to second degree manslaughter and burglary after he and another man broke into a home, then Roche shot the other man to death during their getaway. In 2004, Joseph Roche pled guilty to a domestic battery charge involving Brenda.

While in court yesterday morning, the judge asked Joseph, who appeared disorientated, if he understood his rights. He stated that he did not. ”It’s all supernatural to me,” he added.

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  • aka jas

    Drinking with a person that you have an order against is the stupidest decision ever.  She is/was as sick as he is….only in a different way.  A very sad way.  I am always a little, surprised, by the degree and lack of self respect a victim of domestic violence has. 

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    then Roche shot the other man to death during their getaway. In 2004,
    Joseph Roche pled guilty to a domestic battery charge involving Brenda.

    what in the fuck

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    I just want to say, why are women this DUMB?

  • pikeman

    This fucker shot his partner in crime to death in 1995 and only got second degree manslaughter? WTF? That’s what happens when they let psycho fucks like this out of jail and give them chance after chance. If they had kept him locked up in the first place, this never would have happened.

    Geez, he shot his partner in cold blood in 1995 and was already out getting in trouble in 2004. Obviously he wasn’t in very long that time because he’s already out killing his wife in 2011. This is not just stupidity on his wifes part for getting back with him, but a serious fuck up on the part of the Tennessee Justice System.

  • pikeman

    This fucker shot his partner in crime to death in 1995 and only got second degree manslaughter? WTF? That’s what happens when they let psycho fucks like this out of jail and give them chance after chance. If they had kept him locked up in the first place, this never would have happened.

    Geez, he shot his partner in cold blood in 1995 and was already out getting in trouble in 2004. Obviously he wasn’t in very long that time because he’s already out killing his wife in 2011. This is not just stupidity on his wifes part for getting back with him, but a serious fuck up on the part of the Tennessee Justice System.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t understand how the shooting was turned into manslaughter?! He probably didn’t want to share whatever they had stolen.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t understand how the shooting was turned into manslaughter?! He probably didn’t want to share whatever they had stolen.

  • http://tothechest.com Pete Puma

    This dude’s a classic stoner.

  • http://twitter.com/Q_Jordon Quintin Jordon

    Police say it all started with an argument between 44-year-old Joseph
    Roche and his wife, 46-year-old Brenda Roche. **They had been drinking at the home* of Brenda’s daughter, and got into a physical altercation after Brenda accused Joseph of cheating on her.

    **Holy shit, I bet no one saw that one coming.

    When police arrived on the scene, Roche had blood on his arms and head and told an officer, **“I’m the man you’re looking for.”

    **Another Holy shit for Mr. Obvious. I am sure it has nothing to do with the blood on the arms hands, and head. Have another beer, Dillweed.

    **In fact, at the time of her murder, Brenda had a protective order against Joseph
    that was issued in January. Police say the couple had just recently
    started seeing each other again after several
    months of living apart. In 2004, Joseph Roche pled guilty to a domestic battery charge involving Brenda.

    **What AliceinChainsman said above.

    While in court yesterday morning, the judge asked Joseph, who appeared
    disorientated, if he understood his rights. He stated that he did
    not. **”It’s all supernatural to me,” he added.

    **Anything beyond the number 1 is supernatural to you, tick-turd.

  • http://twitter.com/Q_Jordon Quintin Jordon

    Police say it all started with an argument between 44-year-old Joseph
    Roche and his wife, 46-year-old Brenda Roche. **They had been drinking at the home* of Brenda’s daughter, and got into a physical altercation after Brenda accused Joseph of cheating on her.

    **Holy shit, I bet no one saw that one coming.

    When police arrived on the scene, Roche had blood on his arms and head and told an officer, **“I’m the man you’re looking for.”

    **Another Holy shit for Mr. Obvious. I am sure it has nothing to do with the blood on the arms hands, and head. Have another beer, Dillweed.

    **In fact, at the time of her murder, Brenda had a protective order against Joseph
    that was issued in January. Police say the couple had just recently
    started seeing each other again after several
    months of living apart. In 2004, Joseph Roche pled guilty to a domestic battery charge involving Brenda.

    **What AliceinChainsman said above.

    While in court yesterday morning, the judge asked Joseph, who appeared
    disorientated, if he understood his rights. He stated that he did
    not. **”It’s all supernatural to me,” he added.

    **Anything beyond the number 1 is supernatural to you, tick-turd.

  • aka jas

    HEY HEY HEY!  Watch it!!  Not all women are “dumb” in this way.  And I wouldnt say THIS lady was dumb, she needed help and therapy.

  • Anonymous

    Maybe the other guy said Roche was cheating on him?  Apparently that tends to piss him off.

  • LeaveMeBe

    Bravo to the neighbor for trying to step in, I’m glad he wasn’t killed too. What a sad ending to a horrible life. I wish we still used the electric chair for DP cases, then this guy could feel electrified by the situation as well as feeling everything was supernatural.

  • wishfulsinful

    I think he meant “super natural” as in, ” Im a colossal asshole so this is alll super natural to me, Your Honor!!!”

  • wishfulsinful

    Fry this fuck!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Is this the dude that lives under a rock in the Geico commercial? Because if he is then he didn’t kill his wife with a rock, he THREW her against the ceiling of his house & she died from it.

  • Anonymous

    I’m always surprised and disappointed that they don’t care enough for the other people in their lives to make decisions that are healthy for them, too. They’re just as selfish as addicts. This woman’s daughter and grandchildren just watched her be pounded into a lifeless pulp. That’s going to stay with them forever. 

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    I’ve seen therapy not work in these cases.. urrgh, By the By i didn’t know we were Haveing a “Good Times” re-enactment, A- Hey- Hey- hey

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    Makes me Wonder if they Emigrated to Tn from Florida..

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    I can see getting Stabby, but a Rock? fer fucks sake

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    I can see getting Stabby, but a Rock? fer fucks sake

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    There must have not been any drugs involved..they gave him Credit for offing his partner in crime..

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    There must have not been any drugs involved..they gave him Credit for offing his partner in crime..

  • Anonymous

    We all need help and therapy. That’s why we drink. Nothing wrong with that.

    Drinking with a man who has a long history of violence against you, whom you have sworn in front of a judge that you fear will harm you, and doing so in front of little children, is just fucking dumb. 

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    She Shoulda Like Accused him With a Text message or Something.. I can’t understand why people drink with a Known Nutjob, and then Push his Buttons.. its Fucking Supernatural man, extra-Testicle -Less*sung with katy perry’s voice*

    he Shoulda Just Said he Was Seeing Not-kathy, then she woulda ran him over with a car or some shit.

    And JUST where the Fuck was the Son-In Law???  not protecting  Mother in law obviously..

    P.s, Frozen Pizzas Cook Better in gas Ovens than Electric Ones.. that was my experiment today..

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_PKSJ42VBXNAFJLOH54Y3K4KTXU Heather Habilatory

    *smh* Why the everliving blue fuck was this guy ever allowed out of prison in the first place?! The court system in TN has as much blood on their hands in this case as the POS murderer.

  • aka jas

    The endangerment is completely disgusting. 

  • aka jas

    The endangerment is completely disgusting. 

  • Anonymous

    Honey I was born and raised in TN and have spent the other half of my life in AL. The stuff is just as bad in both of these states as FL stuff like this is just considered business as usual here. Sad but true.

  • Anonymous

    Sucks.  Definitely.  She took his love for granite.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    Unfortunately her illness was fatal.  What horrible monster this man is. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    It happened in Memphis Indiana, not Tennessee.  Although the article does not say where he committed his previous crimes.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    I don’t want to get any of our more sensitive member upset, but … the victim might just still be alive if just one of those witnesses had been wearing a sidearm that day.  Just say’n.  Bullet beats rock almost every time. 

  • Anonymous

    This was actually in Memphis, Indiana

  • Anonymous

    If people regularly went armed in our culture, this guy would probably be one of the armed ones. And he probably would have shot her long before this. Impulse control doesn’t seem like his strong point. 

    But most people don’t want to run around armed, because it’s damned inconvenient, and the world’s just not that dangerous of a place, if you take appropriate precautions. And in the grand scheme of things, I’m not sure that stories like this are any more common than stories of accidental shootings, which are just as tragic (if not more so, as the shooter is guilty only of stupidity, but still has to carry the guilt of taking a life). 

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    As a stoner, I resent that remark.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    Valid points, but I’m still going to keep carrying.  

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    See above, Makes a Good T-shirt..

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    Ahh, I see. well ive visited as far south as Georgia, and the time i spent in TN keeps me awake at night..I figured its All deliverance country

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    Well take my Corn-cob pipe and Beat me with a Sassyfrass tree.. I stand corrected, thats Triple Dog Stupider in Indiana..

    btw, thanks for the Update, !

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    Id say 3 Bullets and No Rock bashing

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    An im still going to keep Polishing My Rockets..and swallowing those Pills

  • Anonymous

    Lol…you’re very welcome :)

  • Anonymous

    Lmao kitty

  • Anonymous

    Geesh…..what is going on in Indiana?? 

  • Anonymous

    I know.What the hell is” it’s all supernatural to me” mean?Did he mean, it’s all Greek to me?That does not make any fucking sense, but then this is comming from  a guy who bashed his wife in the head with a rock.

  • Anonymous

    lmao wishful, that would sound more logical.

  • Anonymous

    Everything cooks better in a gas oven :)

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    I wonder how many years they were married?

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    Many tings on DD seem to..

    My cookies have just not been baking right, due to the electric oven, today i got to borrow a gas one next door to cook a pizza in.. so much better..

  • http://www.facebook.com/rachel.a.prince Rachel Ann Prince

    Assholes like this should be glad a chick would even want to marry their deadbeat asses! I’m just saying the average chick hears that you have been to jail for anything even shoplifting she’s looking for better prospects!
    Worthless mouth-breather!

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    What if I have Been Court Martialed for Stopping An Alien Invasion? does that count?

  • Anonymous

    Nothing wrong with that, provided you take time to educate yourself on how to actually handle an urban combat situation. (If you’re honestly going to carry daily, I think investing in advanced training like FrontSight or something would be well worth it. I’d link, but their website is really annoying.) But the world won’t be any safer with a bunch of yahoos running around shooting each other. 

    Considering the demographic breakdown of crime and victims, I would support legislation to only let women carry firearms. But I’m sure some would get their knickers in a twist.  ;-) 

  • Anonymous

    Yeah cookies are harder to cook evenly in an electric oven.try a different kind of baking pan to compensate or distribute the heat more evenly:) Partchment paper on the baking pan helps also.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    I train obsessively, with the local police force.  You gotta love living in the south, every police department in my area offers comprehensive fire arm training for free.  Police officers down here don’t just condone you owning and carrying a firearm, they encourage it.  I’m not going to lie, I am a firearm collector and enthusiast so I shoot 2-3 times a week with a variety of firearms so that I can out shoot my buddies at the range.  That said, I am very responsible with my sidearm, and I hope I never have to use it in the real world.

  • Siobhan

    Very well said, Kenny.

  • Anonymous

    A well-armed, well-trained militia is a beautiful thing. Every teenaged boy in town running around thinking he’s a big man ’cause he’s strapped is not. And standing still at one end of a firing range and shooting at a piece of paper with nothing behind it at the other is not adequate training for using a weapon in a real-life situation. 

    From what I’ve seen, many people who hold pro-gun political beliefs tend to encourage everyone to arm themselves, with little thought to whether or not that individual is an appropriate addition to a “well regulated Militia”. It’s not the “gun nuts” like yourself (and I use that term affectionately, I love nerds of all varieties) that I worry about, it’s that 22 year old you just convinced start carrying, but whose temperament you didn’t take into account when making the recommendation. He’s going to go to the range twice, he’s going to brush off trigger discipline as unnecessary, but the next time some douchebag at a party starts running his mouth, your young friend is going to feel ten feet tall because he’s got a gun. Somehow, that just doesn’t make me feel safer…

  • pikeman

    Whoops. an oversight on my part. I’d hate to blame Tennessee for Indiana’s downfalls.

  • pikeman

    It’s Indiana, not Tennessee. Memphis, Indiana (I never heard of it). Don’t worry, I made the same mistake.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    Again I fully understand and agree.  Most of my training is standing at the indoor range due to practicality but I make the trip out to the tactical range (and pay the significantly higher fee) and run through the course at least every other month.  I am not as pro deregulation as most firearm enthusiast.  I support keeping laws that make it illegal for felons to posses firearms and I think carry and conceal license (mine must be renewed every 5 years just like my drivers license) are perfectly reasonable.  Most of my buddies in the firearm community call me a pinko liberal for having these views :) .  I will say this, every time there is a story about someone doing something stupid with a gun on the site I cringe because it makes all firearm owners look like dangers to the community.  I will also be the first to criticize such dumbassery in the comment section.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    Judging by Google maps it would be easy to have never heard of, it only as big as the average juggalo’s dick.

  • pikeman

    Lol, sounds like the town I live in, if you can even call it a town.

    At least out here in the country we don’t have to worry about juggalos. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    Here in the city we don’t either, we beat the shit out ‘m and chase them back to there mothers basement’s. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    Nope.

  • Anonymous

    Update to the story:
     http://www.wave3.com/story/15212638/indiana-man-accused-of-killing-wife-with-a-rock-tells-judge-he-is-a-lunatic

  • Anonymous

    When you get a Protective Order it is usually because you fear the person might hurt you.

    At what point do these women go “Oh silly me, I must have been mistaken.”

    If your gut tells you that you should fear a person, believe it. And if you think the man you have a protective order on is cheating, who the fuck cares..run and don’t look back.

  • Anonymous

    fucking knucklehead! I can’t take it anymore, no more comment reading for me… “Woman Dies Laughing While Reading The Dreamin’ Demon”

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    I support legislation for us to have a free for all for Yahoo’s to Shoot One another, Ill start in Cicero Illinois and stop in Berwyn to Hang out With SvenGoolie, need less to say i will have a couple of Phased plasma Rifles in the 900 Terawatt range with pulsed chamber optics and a Mark 5 battle suit, and at least two Little Boy Field tactical Nukes >:)  Yeeeahah , Snap into a Slim Jim!

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    Side arms for up close, whatchu got for Ranged ?

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    I’d prefer we dont need guns.. but um…

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    Some of what goes on in Florida

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    D’oh..

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    I have a Sig AR-15 and a SIG-556R which is basically a Sig version of an AK-47.  Most of my firearms are Sig Sauer.  I carry a .45 P220. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/kennyhackett Kenny Hackett

    I have a Sig AR-15 and a SIG-556R which is basically a Sig version of an AK-47.  Most of my firearms are Sig Sauer.  I carry a .45 P220. 

  • Anonymous

    If I had a tactical range nearby, and fewer current pricey hobbies, I would almost certainly be a gun nut too. But guns are just too expensive of toys for me to play with these days, and I’d be joking if I said they were a necessity, even in my high-crime area. I would carry it for a week, and after that if I ever needed it it would be buried at the bottom of my purse (ETA: 15 minutes) or safely locked up where I couldn’t get to it anyway. 

    I do play a lot of Call of Duty though, so I am still preparing myself for revolution/Zombie apocalypse. When it comes, I’ll just borrow a gun. ;-)

  • Anonymous

    I thinks so, thats why I don’t feel sorry for her, who I feel sorry for is the daughter and grandchildren forced to watch her be murdered.All of this could have been avoided.

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    i have a cat and a kid who like cookie dough, its tough to get it to the oven

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    which happen to be in my town, jeeze basement trash..

  • AliceinChainsman =]

    I like my M4 in a 7.62

  • http://truecrimereport.com iLLusionS

    Wow sounds like to me this guy had in his mind no matter what he was going to kill her that day…Especially after the neighbor spoke up and he attacked him and returned to bashing her in the head. It really sucks that she went back though. I semi offended another poster on the other site that it kind of makes me so furious for and at this women for staying. Having once been in an abuse relationship myself..I am all for powering these women up..helping to restore their soul and self worth. But it has to come when they take responsibility for their own lives..get away from these creeps. And to STAY away from these fuckers. ESPECIALLY when there are children involved and being raised in these wastelands called “home” where the girls grow up and can’t get out of their own way. And the boys grow up thinking they have to beat the “respect” out of a woman. Now before I take on any heat. I know that the leaving process can be VERY difficult. But when she is really ready to go she will stay gone. It is risky to leave, sure. But even riskier to stay.

  • Sandra Dee

    So sad, she got away once and then came back for more. It’s a story that’s been told a million times and will be told a million more. The names change, the weapons change, but it always ends the same way. 

  • BrittneyEast

    I used to work in the courts clerk’s office back home, and let me tell you how fucking frustrating it is.  Every damn day women would file them, and then turn around and rescind them.