FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — A man has confessed to killing three people whose dismembered bodies werefound in a burning dumpster in Texas, as well as his roommate and girlfriend, saying he felt compelled to sacrifice them, authorities said Tuesday.
Jason Thornburg, 41, was arrested Monday on a capital murder charge in the deaths of the three people whose bodies were found in the dumpster in Fort Worth on Sept. 22, police said.
在燃烧的垃圾箱现场的车辆监视镜头将他们带到电工学徒桑堡。一份逮捕令说，周一的军官发现他在附近的阿灵顿工作。
During an interview, Thornburg told officers that he had in-depth knowledge of the Bible and believed he was being called to “commit sacrifices,” according to the arrest warrant.
福特·沃斯（Forth Worth）警方周二表示，在垃圾箱中发现的尸体属于一个男人和两名妇女。警方早些时候说，他们认为其中一个尸体是一个孩子。
警方已将男性受害者确定为42岁的戴维·卢纳斯（David Lueras）。警方说，体检医师将释放妇女的身份。
Thornburg, who had been staying in a motel in the Fort Worth suburb of Euless since late July, told officers that about five days before the bodies were discovered, Lueras had showed up at his motel room, the arrest warrant said. Thornburg told officers he cut Lueras’ throat and then cut him into pieces in the bathtub, the arrest warrant said.
According to the arrest warrant, about two days later he slit the throat of a woman who showed up at his motel room and two days after that, killed another woman who had come to the motel. He said he tried to stab the second woman but ended up strangling her.
Police said at a news conference that Thornburg only knew the women casually.
Police said that when they identified Thornburg as a suspect in the slayings of the three found in the dumpster, they were already familiar with him from a suspicious death investigation earlier in the year.
According to the arrest warrant, Thornburg’s roommate had been killed in a suspicious house fire on May 21. During the police interview on Monday, Thornburg told officers he had slit his roommate’s throat then uncapped a natural gas line and lit a candle. At the time, the medical examiner had not been able to determine his roommate’s cause of death.
据逮捕令称，当警察向索恩堡询问其他任何牺牲时，他还牺牲了他的女友。逮捕令说记录显示她已经失踪了。
警方没有提供有关她的其他细节。
根据逮捕令，垃圾箱附近的视频监视显示9月21日深夜，一辆SUV抬起了。逮捕令说，该人于第二天清晨返回，并在垃圾箱中存放更多的存款。
Also, according to the arrest affidavit, video surveillance from the motel shows a person wearing what appeared to be a full body suit taking large containers from Thornburg’s motel room and placing them in the vehicle.
Police have said firefighters discovered the bodies.
Thornburg was being held in jail on $1 million bond. Jail records did not list an attorney for him.
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