nec·ro·phil·i·a(něk’rə-fĭl’ē-ə)
1. Obsessive fascination with death and corpses.
2. Erotic attraction to or sexual contact with corpses.

*Editor’s Note: It is HIGHLY recommended (as usual) that EVERYONE…especially the ladies…check out WHO it is that they’re dating. Do not wait for someone to go to the extreme before letting them go for being crazy and deranged. Even though this case does not involve a man and his deadly rage against his girlfriend, the story still reads the same. It’s disturbing that the killer’s attorney is trying to enter a plea of ‘mental illness’ for his client. Some people just know what it is that they’re doing…they’re not stupid. But what’s even MORE disturbing is the fact that this happened back in 2006, yet in 2008 its receiving publication…a “first time” for PNE.

It is a scene Linda Jacobs can’t shake.

Police found her daughter’s College Park apartment door standing open and tracked her by following a trail of torn cloths and pulled hair. They found Kimberly Jacobs, 26 — once a petite bundle of smiles — face down in her filled bathtub. Partially nude.

Beaten, raped and strangled.

“When I read the report, all I could do was imagine what happened to her,” Jacobs said. “When I opened the casket to see her body, she had purple bruises and scratches on her forehead. Her eye was so swollen I almost didn’t recognize her profile. That is a vision I will never forget.”

Kimberly Jacobs was supposed to pick up her younger sister at the airport on Sept. 30, 2006.

Instead, she was buried.

It has been 19 months since Linda Jacobs’ world caved in. The time seems longer when she considers that the man police say killed her daughter, Leroy Mitchell Knox, now 23, has yet to stand trial for murder, rape, kidnapping and necrophilia.

from the date of a killing until sentencing. Since 2000, the statewide median time for that was slightly more than 14 months. And the Knox case isn’t going to trial anytime soon.

Such facts and figures may mean something to researchers and legal analysts, but they’re of little concern to Jacobs, who has seen the case languish for a variety of reasons.

The overriding delay has been completing a mental evaluation of the suspect, a process that generally takes three to six months. However, this one has been complicated by the suicide of the original psychiatrist, said John Turner, Clayton County’s executive assistant district attorney.

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