December 5, 2009
Parolee accused of killing, stuffing body into “lawn art”
A man testified yesterday that he thought it odd, but not particularly significant, when a friend who was landscaping the man's backyard last year started building an egg-shaped structure with cement and chicken wire.
When the egg was broken apart later, it was found to contain the decaying remains of 80-year-old Edward Clayton Andrews, whom the landscaper is accused of murdering.
Ben Mason, who leased a home on Alabama Street in North Park at the time, said the friend he knew as "Josh" would often work in the yard when Mason and his roommates were not there. One afternoon in September 2008, he came home to find Josh sloppily constructing the egg, which he said would be the centerpiece of a rock garden…
LINK - SignonSanDiego.com (San Diego Union-Tribune)
