Jason Thomas Scott charged with 4 murder cases
A UPS worker from Maryland was arrested for being under suspicion of killing two mother-daughter pairs during a two months period.
The name of the young man, aged 27, is Jason Thomas Scott, and he has been convicted by a Prince Georges grand jury for the murder of Delores and Ebony Dewitt, a mother and daughter who were found in 2009 in a burning car. The police officers also believe that he killed Karen and Karissa Lofton two months before the murder of the Dewitt mother and daughter. The authorities believe that Scott had been leading a double life, a UPS worker by day and police forensic tactics researcher by night, and they presume that he has been using the UPS database to search for victims. The first murder took place on the 26th of January 2009 in Prince Georges County, Maryland, when Karen Lofton, aged 45, was shot to death while she tried to hide in a corner and her daughter, Karissa, aged 16, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds while she was dialing 911 from her bed. The doors of the house were locked and there were no signs of forced entry, so the killer must have neutralized the Loftons’ home alarm system and slipped inside. On the 16th of March appeared the second pair of victims, Delores Dewitt, aged 42, and her daughter, Ebony, aged 20. They were both found in a burning car, just a mile away from the Lofton’s house, the place of the previous tragedy. The authorities were wondering if this was the work of a serial killer, because there were many similarities between the two cases: they were mother-daughter pairs and the mothers were both nurses just over the age of 40 years old. But there were also differences between the two cases: the Lofton case seemed as if it were planned, execution style, but the Dewitt case seemed like a case of murder while someone was trying to steal a car, and it was not known whether the victims were shot or not.
An FBI profiler said that the killer had acted differently in each case and the cases are probably not connected to each other. Beside the two double murders, the authorities believe that Jason Thomas Scott also killed Vilma Artis Butler, found dead in her burning home from Bowie, Maryland, and is also responsible for other unsolved murders in Washington, D.C., Texas and Florida. Jason Thomas Scott was a computer science graduate of the University of Maryland University College and the police found material on his computer proving that he was researching police investigative tactics and forensic capabilities. He is suspected to have used bleach to clean his crime scenes and that he burned down every other piece of evidence. He was arrested in July 2009 because the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives believed that he was selling firearms from the trunk of his car and was charged with selling 14 stolen guns. The investigation on the stolen guns led to a house where the police officers found evidence linking him to the two crimes. One of his neighbors said that the story began when he was 10 years old, and it developed from recording people when they were undressing to breaking and stealing vehicles. He also believes that being very intelligent brought Scott here.
