A homeless Spring man has been sentenced to two life sentences after admitting to killing his father and another man and burning their bodies in an abandoned warehouse in northwest Houston in 2015.
Jamie Walter, 29, admitted to the killings but insisted he did not kill a third man whose body was also burned in the same barrel, his lawyer James Stafford said Thursday.
"He did admit to killing his father and burning the body," he said. "It's morbid. And it's crazy. A Hollywood screenwriter couldn't make this stuff up."
After Walter was arrested in September 2015, prosecutors said the web of crimes were hard to investigate because almost everyone involved was part of the homeless community. They all knew each other from the streets, usually not with full names.
In his statement to police, Walter claimed his girlfriend, who has not been charged with a crime, fatally stabbed a man she believed had killed her ex-boyfriend weeks earlier. That man's body had been found after a train had run him over. Prosecutors are aware of that death but not sure it was was connected.
Walter, who has "God's Soldier" tattooed on his throat, is unlikely to see parole, his lawyer said.
"My client's I.Q. is way down the chart and he's been in and out of mental institutions since the age of 12," Stafford said. "With two life sentences, he'll never make parole."