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which he called the police. Upon this, Morris was arrested. In a subsequent autopsy, Castillo was found to have been dead for a couple of days before her discovery. The other victims were found near Morris' trailer; for such, he was questioned. He confessed but deflected responsibility away from him, saying that they all overdosed, but later changed the stories to the fact that he accidentally killed them. Due to evidence presented at trial, including his deflection away from responsibility, the jury found him guilty of five counts of murder, and sentenced him to death.
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after which he returned home and disposed of her body in an alleyway not too far from his house. Upon hearing from homicide detectives how this explanation was impossible, Morris recanted his original confession. He asserted that during the night of the sex, Davis had requested Morris to choke her with her own hair, but upon doing that, he accidentally
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In the months during the murders, friends of Morris noticed a body odor coming from him, which he brushed off from the heat from walking to work. On April 12, Morris' uncle was snooping though his trailer when he discovered the maggot ridden body of Julie
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Morris was born on May 10, 1978, in
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According to his confession, Morris claims that in early April 2003, he stumbled upon a cold Julie
Castillo walking around at night. Upon bringing her home, Castillo asked for some drugs, which he obliged. He left the trailer for a while, only to discover that she had overdosed. Upon learning this,
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September 2002, he exchanged with 46-year-old sex worker Barbara Codman, who agreed to have sex with Morris for $ 20. After the sex, Morris claimed he went outside to run nighttime work while Barbara stayed in the trailer to do drugs. Later,
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Velazquez agreed to come to his camper for sex. Morris claimed they had sex and went to sleep. The next morning he realized Velazquez was dead, as she was unresponsive once he woke up. He later dumped her body off in the street. Like the other two
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