09-09-2017, 03:21 PM
GUILTY PLEA
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Piece of shit William Devin Howell (pictured with his 'death mobile'), referred to the site behind a New Britain strip mall where he buried six bodies over a six month period in 2003 as his 'garden'. He pleaded guilty Friday to six counts of murder, saving tax payers an estimated $1 million in court costs.
After months of back-and-forth plea negotiations, Howell appeared in New Britain Superior Court Friday afternoon and accepted a plea deal that in effect is a death sentence. Howell, 47, agreed to plead guilty to six murders and will be sentenced to a maximum of 360 years when he is sentenced on Nov. 17. He has no possibility of ever getting paroled.
Authorities were led to the burial ground by another inmate Jonathan Mills, himself a triple murderer, who befriended Howell in prison and drew police a detailed map of where the bodies were buried based on several jailhouse conversations with Howell.
Howell was already in prison serving a 15-year sentence for the slaying of Nilsa Arizmendi, the first one to disappear from a grocery store parking lot in Wethersfield, when he pleaded guilty to the six other murders this week.
Three of Howell's victims were raped. Some bodies were mutilated. Others were strangled. One woman was beaten in the face with a hammer, a part of her jaw apparently buried somewhere in Virginia, where Howell had lived previously.
If Howell had not been caught, "he was going to go cross-country and kill others," the arrest warrant affidavit said.
More: http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/...story.html
Piece of shit William Devin Howell (pictured with his 'death mobile'), referred to the site behind a New Britain strip mall where he buried six bodies over a six month period in 2003 as his 'garden'. He pleaded guilty Friday to six counts of murder, saving tax payers an estimated $1 million in court costs.
After months of back-and-forth plea negotiations, Howell appeared in New Britain Superior Court Friday afternoon and accepted a plea deal that in effect is a death sentence. Howell, 47, agreed to plead guilty to six murders and will be sentenced to a maximum of 360 years when he is sentenced on Nov. 17. He has no possibility of ever getting paroled.
Authorities were led to the burial ground by another inmate Jonathan Mills, himself a triple murderer, who befriended Howell in prison and drew police a detailed map of where the bodies were buried based on several jailhouse conversations with Howell.
Howell was already in prison serving a 15-year sentence for the slaying of Nilsa Arizmendi, the first one to disappear from a grocery store parking lot in Wethersfield, when he pleaded guilty to the six other murders this week.
Three of Howell's victims were raped. Some bodies were mutilated. Others were strangled. One woman was beaten in the face with a hammer, a part of her jaw apparently buried somewhere in Virginia, where Howell had lived previously.
If Howell had not been caught, "he was going to go cross-country and kill others," the arrest warrant affidavit said.
More: http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/...story.html