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Penny Rebecca Pospisil, 47, (pictured) was charged with second-degree murder and abuse of a dead body on Friday for the killing of 55-year-old Anthony Franklin Mitchell

Penny Rebecca Pospisil, 47, (pictured) was charged with second-degree murder and abuse of a dead body on Friday for the killing of 55-year-old Anthony Franklin Mitchell

A woman is accused of murdering her boyfriend before cutting up his body and stuffing it inside a trailer, according to local Florida authorities. 

Penny Rebecca Pospisil, 47, was charged with second-degree murder and abuse of a dead body on Friday for the killing of 55-year-old Anthony Franklin Mitchell. 

The Seminole County Sheriff's Office launched an investigation into the man's death after they found his body at a camper trailer at Wickham Park Campground in Melbourne on December 30. 

Authorities had been conducting a wellness check on the residence because the lot fee was overdue, Click Orlando reports. 

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The Seminole County Sheriff's Office discovered the man's body on December 30 at the at Wickham Park Campground in Melbourne

Mitchell's body was found dismembered and had been in the advance stages of decomposition when investigators discovered the body. 

It was determined that the woman (pictured) killed the man on August 22

It was determined that the woman (pictured) killed the man on August 22

It was then determined that Mitchell and Pospisil had lived together at the Lake Panasoffkee RV Village in Sumter County. 

The man's family told police that they hadn't heard from Mitchell since August 22 and added that his girlfriend was telling people that he had died. 

Pospisil had moved to the Melbourne trailer in September, and neighbors often reported that a foul odor emitted from her residence. 

Police were able to determine that the woman killed the man on August 23 and that she had kept the body while she determined how to best cover her tracks. 

She is currently being held at the Brevard County Jail.

Investigators are still working on a motive. 

Mitchell and Pospisil had lived together at the Lake Panasoffkee RV Village in Sumter County but his family hadn't heard from him since August 22

Mitchell and Pospisil had lived together at the Lake Panasoffkee RV Village in Sumter County but his family hadn't heard from him since August 22

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