Man Accused of Dismembering Wife While Funding Girlfriend at Strip Club

A California man was so crazy about a woman he met at a strip club that he opened credit cards in her name, sold their house and ‘pocketed all profits’. He did all of this after throwing his wife’s legs in a skip. Jack Dennis Potter, 72, was found guilty of second-degree murder for killing his 54-year-old wife Laurie Diane Potter in February. He was sentenced to death on Friday in a San Diego County courtroom. He was given 15 years to life in jail on Friday. He is 72 years old now, so even if he gets the smallest sentence possible, he will still be well into his 80s.

Case was not solved for a long time. Back on October 5, 2003, a maintenance worker at an apartment building in Rancho San Diego found a set of legs in the trash. Authorities knew these belonged to a woman, but they didn’t know who she was. That changed when the case was brought back to the attention of agents in June 2020. They used new technology to look at her DNA and find family members. Lisa Potter had never been reported missing, it turned out. Jack Potter was the only person who knew what happened to Laurie all these years. When the case was finally solved in 2021, head investigator Detective Troy DuGal said, “Nobody knew except for one guy.”

Authorities say that defendant Potter was deeply in love with a woman he met in a strip club. She was also named Laurie, by the way.

During this time, Jack Potter wasted a lot of money by getting credit, buying a pickup truck, a ski boat, and a Hummer SUV for his new girlfriend. He even got her a flat and a credit card that can be used up to $30,000. He used the death of his wife to make money and even filed for divorce, which was granted.

“In the years that followed, Potter kept up the lie by opening credit cards in Laurie’s name and filing false paperwork with Family Court saying he had talked to Laurie about the case, even though she had been dead for years,” authorities wrote. “He used the Family Court to sell their Temecula home and kept all the money he made.”