A witness told authorities: "As (Caughey) was walking off Driftwood (Avenue), I saw Eugene (McWatters) come up there," according to a sheriff's report.Ĭrime scene photographs showed Caughey's half-nude body near a pair of blue jeans, her T-shirt and bathing suit top pushed up under her armpits to expose her breasts. On June 2, 2004, the body of 18-year-old Carrie Caughey was found on the bank of a Port Salerno pond.Ĭaughey was last seen alive in the early hours of May 31 in a convenience store parking lot at U.S. Afterward, the sergeant administering the test said McWatters was deceptive when he answered "no" to the questions "Did you strangle Jackie Clark?" and "Did you help dispose of the body of Jacqueline Clark?"Īuthorities believe Bradley was murdered March 24 and that McWatters had lured her with the offer of a hot shower. 1 near Monroe Street where the woman they knew as "Jackie Clark" had lived told Martin County sheriff's detectives Bradley was last seen leaving the camp with McWatters.ĭetectives interviewed McWatters, who was staying with his sister in a house on Garden Street, on Apand on April 15, he took a lie detector test.
The next day residents of a homeless camp off U.S. Convicted in 2006, McWatters, now 32, is on death row at the Union Correctional Institution at Raiford.īradley's half-naked and badly decomposed body was found March 31, 2004, floating in a drainage canal at the end of Garden Street in the Golden Gate community. On June 23, 2004, the 26-year-old McWatters was arrested on three counts of rape and first-degree murder. earned the gruesome nickname "The Salerno Strangler." WFAA says he was previously convicted of misdemeanors in Arizona, Oklahoma, and Texas.Īs of February 2022, he is facing life in prison for murder and arson charges, both felonies punishable by up to life in prison.MARTIN COUNTY ? Because his three victims ? Jacqueline Bradley, 43, Christal Wiggins, 29, and Carrie Caughey, 18, all of the Port Salerno area ? died by asphyxiation, Eugene Wayman McWatters Jr. Thornburg also admitted to killing his roommate and a girlfriend in Arizona, who was reported missing.Ī police affidavit reportedly said Thornburg had a deep knowledge of the Bible.īefore the killing spree, he served time behind bars in Texas. Jason Thornburg was arrested in Texas in 2021 after three bodies were found burning in a dumpster.Īccording to the Associated Press, Thornburg said he “felt compelled to sacrifice them.” Thornburg, arrested in the deaths of three people whose dismembered bodies were discovered in a burning dumpster the week before in Texas, confessed to those slayings and two others, police said Tuesday Sept. Little reportedly sketched an unnamed Hispanic woman, possibly in her 40s, who he said was killed in either 1988 or 1996 in Phoenix.ĪP This undated photo provided by the Fort Worth Police Department shows Jason Thornburg. The FBI lists a Hispanic woman, possibly from Phoenix, in her mid-20s who was killed in 1992 or 1993. He is less reliable, however, when it comes to remembering dates.” “He draws pictures of many of the women he killed. He remembers where he was, and what car he was driving,” the FBI report says. “Little remembers his victims and the killings in great detail. In 2018, Little reportedly gave more information about the murders he said he committed, including three in Phoenix. Multiple victims' deaths were misclassified in autopsy reports and listed as drug overdoses or natural deaths."
Investigators say the manner in which Little killed his victims was more reminiscent to suffocation then strangulation, in that several of his victims did not have broken or fractured hyoid bones in the throat. He was arrested in Kentucky in 2012, leading police in various states to begin linking his DNA to unsolved homicides cases.Īccording to the Texas Department of Public Safety, "Little stated he strangled all of his victims, with the exception of two who were drowned, and was adamant he never shot or stabbed them. According to a 2018 report from the FBI, Samuel Little confessed to 90 murders dating back several decades in various states.