On Friday, a Florida judge ordered a psychological evaluation for a woman charged with killing and dismembering her boyfriend in 2017.
Nelci Tetley, 73, allegedly shot Jeffrey Albertsman, 55, whose partial remains were discovered in 2017 at his Daytona Beach home. The Daytona Beach News-Journal reported that Albertsman’s arms and legs were found 20 miles away at a fernery in DeLeon Springs.
Tetley is also considered a person of interest in the 2007 slaying of Michael Scot Louis, 27, who was also dismembered. Louis’ remains were found in garbage bags in Tomoka State Park; his foot, leg, torso, and arms were in separate bags, according to The Daytona Beach News Journal.
People reported that Louis was Tetley’s ex-boyfriend.
In 2008, Blue Ridge Now reported that police were investigating whether “National Forest Serial Killer” Gary Hilton murdered Louis. Hilton, now 76, killed a total of four people in Florida, Georgia, and North Carolina between 2007 and 2008. Louis is suspected of carrying out other slayings, including Judy Smith’s. Smith vanished in Philadelphia in 1997, five months before her remains were discovered 600 miles away in Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina.
Last year, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Blackburn found Tetley incompetent to stand trial and ordered her involuntarily committed. Though the prosecution and defense agreed with this ruling, the Department of Children and Families successfully challenged it.
“There can be no clear and convincing evidence to indicate a substantial probability that Ms. Tetley will regain competency in the reasonably foreseeable future. Therefore, the circuit court departed from the essential requirements of the law when it involuntarily committed Ms. Tetley,” the Fifth District Court of Appeal wrote in June.
As a result of that ruling, Blackburn ordered another mental evaluation last week. The Daytona News Journal reported that a status hearing is scheduled for August 30 which may address whether another competency hearing is required. According to the news outlet, Tetley could be admitted to a facility if her mental state cannot be restored.
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[Featured image: Nelci Tetley/Daytona Beach Police Department]
