Convicted cannibal serial killer sentenced to death for dismembering victims for ‘sacrifices’

Jason Alan Thornburg in court as he receives the death sentence

Background: Jason Alan Thornburg hears his death sentence in court (WTVT/YouTube). Inset: Jason Alan Thornburg (Tarrant County Police Department).

Jason Alan Thornburg, a Texas man who was convicted of murdering three people in the name of “sacrifices” and admitted to eating parts of one of his victims, was sentenced to death for his crimes.

A jury found Thornburg, 44, guilty on Nov. 20 after he was accused of committing the gruesome killings of David Lueras, 42, Lauren Phillips, 34, and Maricruz Mathis, 33. The dismembered remains of those three victims were found burning in a dumpster in September 2021. Thornburg was indicted for their murders that December. In his arrest warrant, he admitted to the killings as well as the apparent murders of his girlfriend, Tanya Begay, 36, and his roommate, Mark Jewell, 61.

On Dec. 4, Thornburg learned his fate.

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