A New Jersey judge on Friday sentenced a 34-year-old man to eight years in prison for dismembering a murder victim and disposing of the body parts in black trash bags.

Jared Krysiak pleaded guilty to desecration of human remains in December, the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office said in a press release. Krysiak was in a Toms River home with 35-year-old Maxwell Johnston who was wanted for murdering his girlfriend about a week prior in Manchester when authorities descended on the property on July 3. Krysiak, Danielle Bolstad, 42, and Jared Palumbo, 36, surrendered but Johnston and 29-year-old Elizabeth Mascarelli remained inside. After several hours, Mascarelli came out injured. Cops eventually sent in a drone which found Johnson had died by suicide. Police found a .22 caliber handgun and a 9 mm handgun in the home.

While searching the home, cops realized a murder had occurred there on July 3. They further learned that the victim, 56-year-old Kerry Rollason, may have been moved.

Mascarelli, a mother of a 5-year-old, was originally charged with murder for the slaying, which she committed after conspiring with Johnson, according to prosecutors. After killing Rollason, Mascarelli, Krysiak and the others in the home dismembered his body and dumped the body parts at the Jackson Township property, which is about 20 miles north of the quiet town of Toms River. Cops discovered Rollason’s body on July 12; he had been shot multiple times and beaten to death.

According to a courtroom report from the Asbury Park Press, Krysiak denied cutting up any body parts but admitted to using a pry bar to separate the body’s joints as his co-defendant’s dismembered Rollason. He also admitted to help move the body parts to the Jackson Township property and burned them in a barrel. In addition, Krysiak said he cleaned up the victim’s blood and his own vomit.

Krysiak’s attorney Danny Ljunberg tried to point out the mitigating factor that his client likely would not find himself in a similar position in the future. But Superior Court Judge Guy P. Ryan was having none of that.

“How am I supposed to find that?” the judge reportedly said. “That he’s not around a body that can be cut up and may be pried apart? One would hope he’s not in those circumstances.”

Assistant Ocean County Prosecutor Julie Peterson told the judge that Krysiak’s actions fits the desecration of a body charge to the letter.

“When you talk about desecration, this is really the truest form of desecration of a human body that I can think of,” Peterson reportedly stated. “It’s an absolute degradation really, of a corpse. The person was chopped into pieces and moved from one township to another. It’s truly unconscionable.”

As Law&Crime previously reported, Mascarelli pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter and was sentenced last month to 25 years in prison.

“Frankly, the facts are the plot of a horror movie,” Peterson said at Mascarelli’s sentencing, according to the Asbury Park Press. “One has to suspend themselves from reality to accept that something so gruesome, so horrific, inhumane, could happen right here in Toms River, in Ocean County, New Jersey.”

During the investigation, Mascarelli told cops that Johnson was pulling her strings and threatening to kill Rollason, which she originally claimed he did. Mascarelli said the wanted murderer was terrorizing everyone in the house and “by all accounts, carried a firearm at all times, brandishing it often,” according to Mascarelli’s lawyer, Glenn Kassman, who spoke at her sentencing.

Johnson was “suspicious and paranoid of everyone and everything,” Kassman said, even attacking pillows with knives at times. He and Mascarelli both consumed and dealt drugs while living together and were caught on video engaging in sexual acts, according to prosecutors.

“Licking and kissing the gun that he was using to open fire,” Peterson said.

After killing Rollason, Mascarelli took photos of his body as “a memory of something she seems to be proud of,” according to Peterson. She also let his body sit in the basement while she, Johnson and the other housemates went to get McDonald’s before returning to dismember him.

“Her character is demonstrated by choosing to harbor an individual who was known to be wanted for murder, by choosing to shoot Kerry Rollason, the person who was allowing her to stay in the house, and then leave his body on the basement floor to take a break and grab a quick bite to eat at McDonald’s with her codefendants, and come back and mutilate his body like an animal carcass at the butcher,” Peterson said.

On Jan. 13, Bolstad also pleaded guilty to desecration of human remains while Palumbo pleaded guilty to hindering apprehension. They are set to be sentenced on March 14.