Feb 20, 2011 2 min read

PLUM, Pa. (AP) – A Pennsylvania man was charged with killing and dismembering a man who disappeared after leaving a bar with a woman last weekend.

Vito Pelino, 25, of Verona, was arrested and charged Friday with killing 24-year-old William King.

King had left the Hula Bar in Verona early Sunday with the woman and gone to her home in Oakmont, police said. She told police that Pelino later came to her house and said he was taking King home.

A witness then told police that Pelino had asked for help disposing of King’s body. The witness went to the basement of Pelino’s mother’s house, where he said he saw garbage bags with body parts inside, according to a police affidavit.

The witness said he helped Pelino dispose of the body parts in a wooded area near Plum.

Pelino told the witness he killed King because he caught him trying to have sex with the woman, police said.

Pelino, on his own initiative, went to Penn Hills police on Wednesday to say he had not gone to the woman’s house to get King. He was charged in the death the next day.

Pelino was arraigned early Friday morning on homicide, kidnapping and abuse of corpse charges.

He was being held without bail in the Allegheny County Jail. It was not immediately clear if he had an attorney.

His preliminary hearing was set for Friday.