A Texas man was convicted of killing three people, dismembering them and burning their bodies after admitting to investigators that he was called to “make sacrifices.”
Jason Thornburg was found guilty of murder on Wednesday and now the same Tarrant County jury that convicted him must determine whether he will receive a death sentence or spend the rest of his life in prison with no chance of parole, Fox said. 4.
In September 2021, Thornburg killed three people, dismembered their bodies and stored them under his bed at a motel in Euless, Texas, before setting the bodies on fire in a dumpster in Fort Worth.
Thornburg admitted to investigators that he felt compelled to make “ritual sacrifices” and that he ate a victim’s heart and other parts of the victims’ bodies.
His lawyers argued that he was insane when he committed the murders and suffered from serious mental illness.
When he was arrested on murder charges, Thornburg admitted to police that he killed his roommate in a suspicious house explosion in May 2021 and his girlfriend in Arizona in 2017.
These two previous murders were brought up in court on Thursday as the sentencing aspect of the trial began.
The victims’ families cannot speak publicly until the punishment phase is over.
