TOLEDO, Ohio-
A truck driver on trial in the deaths of two women pleaded guilty Monday to killing them and two others, officials said.
Prosecutors said they agreed not to seek the death penalty in exchange for Dellmus Colvin’s guilty plea to aggravated murder in the deaths of four prostitutes and complicity to commit murder in a fifth slaying.
The victims’ bodies all were found in the Toledo area between 2000 and 2005, prosecutors said.
Lucas County Common Pleas Judge Thomas Osowik sentenced 47-year-old Colvin to two consecutive terms of life in prison with no chance for parole.
Colvin went on trial last week in the slayings of Jackie Simpson, whose body was found in 2003, and Melissa Weber, whose body was found two years later. Both were strangled and wrapped in sheets and blankets before being dumped in secluded areas, prosecutors said.
Investigators linked Colvin to the slayings through DNA evidence, prosecutors said during the trial. They had suspected Colvin was involved in more than just the two murders he was charged with and were pressing him to admit to other killings, Braun said.
Colvin admitted to the killings Sunday night during a meeting with police and prosecutors, Assistant Prosecutor Tim Braun said.
“He finally came clean about a number of other killings he had been involved with,” Braun said.
The other victims were Lily Summers, 43, Valerie Jones, 38, and Jacquelynn Thomas 42. Braun did not provide details of their deaths.
Theresa Weber, Melissa Weber’s mother, said her daughter and the other women didn’t deserve to die.
“They were all mothers,” she said. “They all had families.”
A message seeking comment was left Monday evening at the office of Colvin’s attorney, Jack Viren.
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