Burch told the Associated Press that the magnitude of the crime was “unprecedented here”.
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“Given the way the scene looks, we’re going to be here a couple of days”, Burch said.
Mobile county district attorney Ashley Rich said the crime scene where five people were “brutally and viciously murdered” was the worst she had seen in 20 years as a prosecutor. According to Drugs.com, that stamp is used to identify pills containing a mix of acetaminophen and hydrocodone, but the official said at least one of the pills tested positive for fentanyl. Authorities said he then forced Lester and the 3-month-old baby into his vehicle, drove to his father’s house in MS, released the woman and the child and then turned himself in at the Greene County Sheriff’s Office.
“He’s been cooperative”, Burch told AP.
Detectives are still processing the scene and are attempting to establish the relationship between Dearman and the victims.
Dearman allegedly let the kidnapped woman and baby go free before surrendering at the Greene County Sheriff’s Office, according to CNN.
Dearman then drove Lester and a three-month-old infant, who was the child of one of the murder victims, to his father’s home in Mississippi. Lester was staying with a relative there.
Burch said a resident of the home called 911 between midnight and 1 a.m. on Saturday to report that Dearman was trespassing on the property. The police were called to the location, but Dearman left only to return hours later, breaking into the house and attacking the five victims – three male and two female, between the ages of 22 and 35 – while they were sleeping.
Police officers found five corpses in a residence in Jim Platt Road, Citronelle, Alabama.
Dearman then forced Lester and a three-month-old baby belonging to one of the victims into his auto and drove to his father’s home in Mississippi. He refused to sign extradition papers Saturday night, and was taken to the George County jail due to overcrowding and the need to keep him from other inmates, McLeod said.
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The killings happened about 150 miles southwest of Rutledge, Alabama, another town in the southern part of the state where six family members were found shot to death at their rural home on 26 August 2002.
