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 loss of life sentence or if he’ll spend the remainder of his life in jail with out the potential for parole, in keeping with Fox 4.
In September 2021, Thornburg killed three individuals, dismembered their our bodies and saved them below his mattress at a motel in Euless, Texas, earlier than lighting the our bodies on hearth inside a dumpster in Fort Value.
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Jason Thornburg (Tarrant County Jail)
Thornburg confessed to investigators that he felt a compulsion to commit “ritualistic sacrifices” and that he ate a sufferer’s coronary heart and different components of the victims’ our bodies.
His attorneys argued he was insane when he carried out the murders and suffered from a extreme psychological illness.
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Thornburg confessed to investigators that he was being referred to as to “commit sacrifices” and that he ate a sufferer’s coronary heart and different components of the victims’ our bodies. (iStock)
When he was arrested on homicide allegations, Thornburg confessed to police he killed his roommate in Might 2021 throughout a suspicious residence explosion and his girlfriend in Arizona again in 2017.
These two earlier murders had been introduced up in court docket on Thursday when the punishment side of the trial started.
The jury should now decide whether or not he receives a loss of life sentence or if he’ll spend the remainder of his life in jail with out the potential for parole. (iStock)
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The victims’ households can’t converse publicly till the punishment part is completed.