Two workers at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation were allowed to resign after taking photos of themselves with a murdered teacher’s severed head.

Death investigation specialist Jesse Landen Wilson posed holding the head while graphic designer James Brown took the morbid snap during an examination on the remains of Robert Page last November.

Wilson, who spent six years with the GBI, and Brown, a 25 year veteran, had been told that they would have been fired if they refused to quit of their own accord.

This cropped photo shows Georgia Bureau of Investigation death investigation specialist posing with the severed head of murdered teacher Robert Page (Picture: Channel2)

But the leniency shown to them has infuriated relatives of 76 year-old Page, who police say was killed and dismembered by neighbor Christian Ponce-Martinez, 25, in Atlanta last month. He has been charged with malice murder.




Page’s widow Lena told Channel 2 Action news that she was deeply disturbed to hear about the photo.

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She said: ‘Why would you allow them to resign when they knew better?

‘Awful that somebody would be that evil.’

And Wilson’s daugter Reba Sanchez added: ‘Resignation is too good.

Murder victim Page pictured with wife Lena. She has branded the GBI staff ‘evil’ for their disrepectful behavior, and has demanded to know why they were given the option to resign (Picture: Channel2)

‘Thats almost like an admission of what you did wasn’t even wrong.

‘You taking pictures, making light of a situation like that, you are just as evil to me as that murderer.’

GBI spokesman confirmed that Wilson and Brown had left the Bureau, and described the photo that was taken as ‘highly inappropriate.’

The Bureau says it has now banned staff members from taking personal photos in the medical examiner’s office.