A Missouri man has been dubbed the “package killer” by various vessels after being charged with the unsolved murder of multiple women around St. Louis more than 30 years ago.
St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell has filed a case against Gary Muhlberg ( 73) announced an indictment against The killing took place from March 1990 to February 1991.
He also confessed to killing two other women, said Sergeant Jodie Webber of the O’Fallon Police Department.
“He was surprised to see us for the first time in 32 years,” Weber said, reported The Riverfront Times.
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On Monday, prosecutors in St. Charles, St. Louis and Lincoln counties indicted Muhlberg with separate murders. Cold case detectives have investigated hundreds of leads over the years. DNA technology has advanced so much that the physical evidence taken from Mihan’s body was tested and found to have Mühlberg’s DNA.
He is currently serving a life sentence for another murder.
The serial killer allegedly killed the women and dumped their bodies in various containers. According to the paper, Mihan, Pruitt and Little were kidnapped from the city’s red-light district and worked as sex workers.
Muhlberg took each victim to his home, strangled them, and then left the bodies in a package by a highway in Missouri, according to the report. The container contained a plywood box tied between two mattresses and a trash can.
Investigators interpreted the package as a way to make fun of them.
“He’s playing games with us. He’s leaving bodies in the open and doing a good job,” one detective told the St. Louis Dispatch at the time.
He reportedly confessed to murdering at least five women over the years.
Sandy Little’s half-sister, Geneva Talbot, said, “All I prayed for was that he wasn’t dead.” Seeing him just made me angry.”
In 1993, Muhlberg was arrested in Illinois in connection with the death of 57-year-old Kenneth “Doc” Atchison. His body was found in a makeshift coffin in the Mühlberg basement, KMOV-TV reported. According to authorities, he had been missing for weeks after leaving home with his $6,000 to buy a car from a killer.
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After the murder, Mühlberg fled, but was arrested five weeks later. Upon searching his home, authorities found a “secret room” accessed by pressing a panel just inside the door leading to the basement, news reports said.
Investigators say Muhlberg asked the woman to have sex with him before killing her.