TAMPA, Fla. -- A woman and her two young children slain north of Tampa were found mutilated and dismembered in a crime scene that investigators described as one of the most gruesome they had ever seen. Lisa Freiberg and her children, 7-year-old Zachary and 2-year-old Heather Savannah, were found dead in their mobile home Monday morning. The 26-year-old woman's live-in boyfriend was found hiding under some clothes in a closet and was taken to a hospital after claiming he had ingested an unknown substance, Hillsborough County Sheriff David Gee said Tuesday. At least one of the victims had been decapitated, and the bodies were in such bad shape that visual identification was impossible, Gee said. The family's white German shepherd also was killed. For investigators, the mobile home in Lutz is an "extremely tough crime scene, emotionally and logistically," Gee said. The boyfriend has not been charged and remains at the hospital under guard, Gee said. The sheriff said more than one weapon had been used, but he would not elaborate, and he did not discuss possible motives. Neighbors said that Freiberg had met her boyfriend on the Internet, and that he had recently moved in. He was not the father of the children. Gee said the bodies were found by Lisa Freiberg's mother, who checked on her daughter after becoming concerned when she didn't hear from her on Mother's Day.
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