ELBRIDGE -- Police say an Elbridge man accused of murdering his parents had tried to hide their bodies in a septic tank in the backyard.

State police on Wednesday said that they were first alerted to the crime scene when William Kirby, a nephew of Joseph M. Bisesi Jr. and Jo Ellen Bisesi of 5879 Sandbank Road, Elbridge, came to the state police barracks in Elbridge to say that he had found a human torso sticking out of a pipe at their home.

Police said Kirby had gone to the home after talking with the couple's daughter, Gina Bisesi, who said she hadn't been able to contact her parents since Sunday morning.

Police said Joseph M. Bisesi III, 27, killed his parents Sunday night and later put his mother's body in the septic tank. He dismembered his father's body, police said, and tried to also hide his body in the septic tank.

State Police Capt. Jeff Raub said Joseph Bisesi III left the home in his mother's tan Jeep Liberty before turning himself in to the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office. Police later charged him with first-degree murder.

Read the full report in Thursday's edition of The Citizen.