A Texas man was convicted of killing three individuals, dismembering them and burning their our bodies after admitting to investigators that he was referred to as to “commit sacrifices.”
Jason Thornburg was discovered responsible of capital homicide on Wednesday and now, the identical Tarrant County jury that convicted him should decide whether or not he receives a dying sentence or if he’ll spend the remainder of his life in jail with out the opportunity of parole, in accordance with Fox 4.
In September 2021, Thornburg killed three individuals, dismembered their our bodies and saved them underneath his mattress at a motel in Euless, Texas, earlier than lighting the our bodies on hearth inside a dumpster in Fort Price.
Thornburg confessed to investigators that he felt a compulsion to commit “ritualistic sacrifices” and that he ate a sufferer’s coronary heart and different elements of the victims’ our bodies.
His attorneys argued he was insane when he carried out the murders and suffered from a extreme psychological illness.
When he was arrested on homicide allegations, Thornburg confessed to police he killed his roommate in Could 2021 throughout a suspicious dwelling explosion and his girlfriend in Arizona again in 2017.
These two earlier murders had been introduced up in courtroom on Thursday when the punishment facet of the trial started.
The victims’ households can not converse publicly till the punishment part is completed.
