Gregory Hale, a self-proclaimed Satanist will spend the rest of his life behind bars after pleading guilty in the decapitation and cannibalism death of a Tennessee woman.

‘He told investigators that he fulfilled an obsession in wanting to kill a person and dismembering them,’ Coffee County District Attorney Craig Northcott told Circuit Court Judge Craig Johnson Thursday.

Hale said that he found the victim, Lisa Marie Hyder, at a liquor store and killed her after having sex with her. Hyder reportedly had struggled with alcoholism for years and had called family members and her ex-husband for help earlier that day because she was inebriated.

Police discovered human remains at Hale’s home and then found the body of Hyder in various buckets around Hale’s home.

Hale has a track record of bizarre behavior connected to his worship of Satan.  His Facebook page has images of him in satanic worship including dismemberment using a large steel blade.  He had been fired from a job at a meat packing plant for stealing animal’s body parts.

Hyder’s ex-husband says their 6-year-old and 4-year-old really don’t understand what happened and so he told them their mother “got sick and has gone home to live with God.”sa