An American murderer who was executed in Mississippi last month has confessed to a second murder shortly before. David Neal Cox had been sentenced to death for the murder of his wife in 2010. A few weeks before his execution, he confessed to his lawyers that he had also killed his sister-in-law in 2007.
Cox has explained in detail to his lawyers where to find the remains of 40-year-old Felicia Cox. He said he was “deeply sorry” for his act and no longer wanted to leave the family in doubt about its fate. A search for the woman’s body will soon begin.
Cox had been a suspect in the case for some time, the state prosecutor of a number of Mississippi districts said at a news conference. The daughter of Felicia Cox, who was 18 when her mother was reported missing, was present. She said nothing and just wiped her tears.
Cox, 50, last month became the first inmate in Mississippi to be executed in nine years.
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