The Tarrant County district attorney's office said they've filed the paperwork to seek the death penalty for 41-year-old Jason Thornburg.
FORT WORTH, Texas — Prosecutors in Texas said Monday that they will seek the death penalty for a man who authorities have said including three whose dismembered bodies were found in a burning dumpster last year.
The Tarrant County district attorney's office said they've filed the paperwork to seek the death penalty for Jason Thornburg, 41. He was arrested in September on a in the deaths of David Lueras, 42, Lauren Phillips, 34, and Maricruz Mathis, 33. Their bodies were found in a burning dumpster in Fort Worth.
During an interview with police, Thornburg confessed to killing those three as well as his roommate and girlfriend, according to his arrest warrant.
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