We all thought he did it. Perhaps because lately there have just been so many of them that have done it. A registered sex offender. A missing child. A body found. There seems to always be some type of connection. Admittedly they aren't the only ones out there killing children. But lately- they are the first we turn to. And often, we are right. Too often. Too many murdered children. Too many sex offenders.
TAMPA
-- After a tearful conversation with his mother in jail, a sex offender accused
of killing 13-year-old Sarah Lunde and sinking her body in an abandoned fishing
pond admitted to authorities that he committed the crime, court documents said.
State attorney's office documents released Thursday in the case against
David Onstott also included autopsy results that show Sarah died from crushing
blows to the head, even though investigators earlier said Onstott had confessed
to strangling her.
The autopsy found that her killer fractured her skull and
broke her jaw before dumping her in an abandoned fishing pond near her home and
church in rural southeastern Hillsborough County in April.
Onstott, 37, who
had once dated Sarah's mother, has been indicted on charges of first-degree
murder and attempted sexual battery. He has pleaded not guilty and remains in
the county jail without bail awaiting trial.
In jail, Onstott wept as he
spoke with his mother, the records said. After speaking briefly with his
attorney by phone, he agreed to talk again with investigators.
Raising his
handcuffed arms in the air, he said, "I did it." And then, "I'm guilty of
murder," the records said.
Onstott was convicted of rape in 1995.
Prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty.
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