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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/man-charged-over-tree-bodies-horror.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Matthew Hoffman is charged with aggravated murder, burglary, kidnapping and rape (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-man-charged-over-tree-bodies-horror.jpg" alt="Matthew Hoffman is charged with aggravated murder, burglary, kidnapping and rape (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A man suspected of killing three people whose dismembered bodies were found in a hollow tree has been charged with aggravated murder, burglary, kidnapping and rape.</p>
<p>But a death sentence is not being pursued at the wishes of the victims&#8217; families.</p>
<p>Instead unemployed tree-cutter Matthew Hoffman could face life without the possibility of parole if convicted of killing Tina Herrmann, her son Kody Maynard, and neighbour Stephanie Sprang, according to an indictment.</p>
<p>The indictment says Hoffman, 30, committed the killings while he burgled Ms Herrmann&#8217;s house on November 10 near a lakeside community about 60 miles from Columbus, Ohio.</p>
<p>Hoffman was also charged with kidnapping a 13-year-old girl during the crime and later raping her at his home in Mount Vernon.</p>
<p>The crimes that Hoffman is charged with could carry a possible death penalty, but Knox County prosecutor John Thatcher said those charges were not pursued &#8220;in accordance with the wishes of the victims&#8217; families&#8221;.</p>
<p>Hoffman is also charged with tampering with evidence for allegedly taking clothes and bedding from Ms Herrmann&#8217;s house because he sought to remove them as possible evidence. He is further charged with abusing a corpse &#8220;because the victims&#8217; remains were not intact when recovered&#8221;, Mr Thatcher said.</p>
<p>Hoffman&#8217;s lawyer said the charges were not a surprise.</p>
<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s really nothing in the indictment that came as a shock, based on what I had understood the state&#8217;s position to be as to what had occurred,&#8221; Bruce Malek said.</p>
<p>He declined to comment on Mr Thatcher&#8217;s decision not to seek the death penalty.</p>
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