Texas man convicted of killing and mutilating 3 people as part of a “sacrifice”

In September 2021, the bodies of David Lueras, Lauren Phillips and Maricruz Mathis They were found in a burning dumpster in Fort Worth. In December of the same year, Jason Thornburg He was charged with all three murders. After more than three years of the crimes carried out as part of a “sacrifice”, the person responsible was convicted.

Thornburg also confessed to the murders of two other people years earlier. That of his girlfriend, Tanya Begayin Arizona in 2017, and that of his former roommate, Mark Jewellin May 2021, during a suspicious explosion in a house.

Jason expressed that it was a “human sacrifice to God”; He claimed to have a deep knowledge of the Bible and claims to have been called to perform human sacrifices, he said in an affidavit.

The murderer attended a conference, given precisely by one of his alleged victims. He wrote that he wanted to be a missionary and that his greatest strength was “a sense of purpose, a sense of destiny that must be achieved,” as quoted by CBS News.

Thornburg confessed to investigators that he felt a compulsion to commit “ritual sacrifices,” during which He ate the hearts and other body parts of his victims.

David, Lauren and Maricruz were not only cremated in the dumpster, but previously dismembered, and their remains were kept under their bed in a motel in Euless, Texas.

Relatives of the victims cannot make any statements until the punitive phase of the trial is over, Fox News reported.

Thornburg’s lawyers have argued “insanity” of their clientby carrying out the atrocious acts, and who also suffers from a serious mental illness.

A Tarrant judge ruled in 2021 that there is reasonable cause to believe that Thornburg does suffer from a mental illness or probably an intellectual disability.

Jason Thornburg was ultimately convicted of capital murder by the Tarrant County jury, whose responsibility now lies in determining the sentence, which could be life in prison without the possibility of parole, or receiving the death penalty.

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