09-21-2015, 03:25 PM
ARRAIGNMENT - 6 MURDERS
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Looks like ^ Howell couldn't help bragging about all the women he killed and dumped, including one whose body he kept for two weeks in a van he called the "murder mobile".
That was his undoing and led to him being charged with 6 counts of murder (he was behind bars already serving 15 years for manslaughter of another woman).
At his arraignment on Friday, Prosecutors said that William Devin Howell, a 45-year-old native of Hampton, Virginia, told a cellmate "there was a monster inside of him that just came out" and described himself as a "sick ripper," according to the warrant. He said if he wasn't caught, he was going to go cross-country and kill others, it said.
Howell told a cellmate the first person he killed was a woman he raped in his van, the warrant said. The cellmate, who described his conversations with Howell to authorities, said Howell told him he strangled the woman and hit her in the head with a hammer, the warrant said.
Howell told the fellow inmate he kept the woman's body wrapped up in his van because it was too cold outside to bury her, the warrant said. He also said he cut off the tips of her fingers, dismantled her bottom jaw and disposed of the body parts in Virginia, it said.
He told his cellmate he slept next to the woman's body in the van, calling her his "baby," according to the warrant.
Many relatives of the victims attended the proceeding, and several cried after Howell was brought into the courtroom in an orange prison jumpsuit, shackled on his arms and legs.
A judge set bail at $10 million. Howell did not speak or enter any pleas. The case was continued to Oct. 28.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-suspect...er-mobile/
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Connecticut no longer has the death penalty, so Howell's likely facing 6 consecutive life sentences if convicted.
Looks like ^ Howell couldn't help bragging about all the women he killed and dumped, including one whose body he kept for two weeks in a van he called the "murder mobile".
That was his undoing and led to him being charged with 6 counts of murder (he was behind bars already serving 15 years for manslaughter of another woman).
At his arraignment on Friday, Prosecutors said that William Devin Howell, a 45-year-old native of Hampton, Virginia, told a cellmate "there was a monster inside of him that just came out" and described himself as a "sick ripper," according to the warrant. He said if he wasn't caught, he was going to go cross-country and kill others, it said.
Howell told a cellmate the first person he killed was a woman he raped in his van, the warrant said. The cellmate, who described his conversations with Howell to authorities, said Howell told him he strangled the woman and hit her in the head with a hammer, the warrant said.
Howell told the fellow inmate he kept the woman's body wrapped up in his van because it was too cold outside to bury her, the warrant said. He also said he cut off the tips of her fingers, dismantled her bottom jaw and disposed of the body parts in Virginia, it said.
He told his cellmate he slept next to the woman's body in the van, calling her his "baby," according to the warrant.
Many relatives of the victims attended the proceeding, and several cried after Howell was brought into the courtroom in an orange prison jumpsuit, shackled on his arms and legs.
A judge set bail at $10 million. Howell did not speak or enter any pleas. The case was continued to Oct. 28.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-suspect...er-mobile/
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Connecticut no longer has the death penalty, so Howell's likely facing 6 consecutive life sentences if convicted.