Westfield Native Murdered, Dismembered By Daughter: Reports

WESTFIELD, NJ - A Westfield High graduate was murdered and dismembered by her daughter in Olympia, Washington, according to the Olympia Police Department.

In a report in the Olympian, authorities say Amara Lundy strangled and dismembered her mother, Susan Lundy, leaving body parts in dumpsters and trash cans throughout northwest Olympia. A Fox News broadcast noted that the daughter then reportedly discarded the body in a yard waste container for several days before dismembering the remains with a kitchen knife and small saw.

Susan Lundy, 58, was a class of 1979 graduate of Westfield High School according to TAPInto. She is listed with a photo in the Weather Vane as a junior in the 1978 edition, the report said.

The Seattle Times reported:

• Susan Lundy had been living with her daughter on the 1400 block of Division Street Northwest before she went missing at the end of June.
• Two of her friends reported her missing July 6
• Police found a strong bleach smell in the basement and in a large yard waste container
• Susan Lundy’s ID and credit cards were found in a garbage can at a west Olympia shopping center.

After her arrest, the Olympian reported Amara Lundy told detectives “she had grown tired of her mother and decided that if her mother was dead, things would be better for several people.” She allegedly used a cord to strangle her mother, saying “her mother begged for her to stop but (she) felt at that point her only option was to finish strangling her and continued to do so until her mother stopped thrashing.”

She and her boyfriend allegedly used a grocery store shopping cart to drop off body parts at dumpsters and private refuse containers, according to the Olympian. At the end of the police interview, officers said Amara Lundy showed officers where she had disposed of her mother’s remains, the report said.

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