Convict sentenced to life for scalping death
HOUSTON
Mark Boyd pleaded guilty to murder on Monday. In October 2008, Boyd was smoking marijuana that had been soaked in embalming fluid, a drug known as 'sherm.' While he was high, Boyd, 37, stabbed to death an acquaintance, Wilbur Ake.
Investigators said Boyd scalped and mutilated Ake's body in his north Harris County apartment complex.