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Victims' families confront convicted killer Jason Thornburg: FULL
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27:58Now PlayingFamily members of Tarrant County convicted killer Jason Thornburg's victims speak out in court after a jury sentenced him to death.
Thornburg was convicted of killing David Lueras, 42, Lauren Phillips, 34, and Maricruz Reyes-Mathis, 33, in September 2021. He then dismembered their bodies and stored them under his bed at a Euless motel. Afterwards, he set the bodies on fire inside a Fort Worth dumpster.
Thornburg admitted to investigators he was being called to "commit sacrifices" and even ate a victim's heart and other parts of the bodies, which was detailed during the guilt-innocence phase of the trial.
When Thornburg was arrested for the 2021 motel murders, he reportedly confessed to police he killed his roommate, 61-year-old Mark Jewell, in May 2021 during a suspicious home explosion and his girlfriend Tanya Begay in Arizona back in 2017. Thornburg allegedly told detectives that he sacrificed Begay in Arizona.
A Tarrant County jury handed down their decision on Wednesday evening after the prosecution and defense made their closing arguments in the punishment phase of his trial.
Thornburg will be transferred to Huntsville where he will stay until his execution date is set.
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