James Michael Wright met all of the victims while working at the traveling carnival, police say.
James Wright /) By Meagan Flynn Meagan Flynn Morning Mix reporter Email Bio Follow May 14 at 6:25 AM On the morning of March 19, a 23-year-old man veered over the centerline and collided headfirst with a school bus, contorting his silver Chevy pickup truck into a collection of scrap metal.
Between Feb. 28 and March 17, police now say, Wright killed three women between the ages of 17 and 25 whom he met while working at the traveling carnival, luring them to Mendota, Va., where he lived, before fatally shooting them. At a Monday news conference, Washington County Sheriff Fred Newman said Wright had been arrested on three charges of capital murder and that he confessed during a police interview.“We find that hard to believe,” the sheriff said.
On the night of March 17, Chapman remembered, Wright arrived to pick her up for the job — but he never brought her back.Chapman grew more concerned. After the crash, she contacted Wright to ask where Hopson was, WJHL reported. He claimed he got into the accident just after dropping her off at Chapman’s apartment in Johnson City, Tenn., about 40 miles south of Mendota.
Inside Wright’s totaled truck, Newman said, police soon found Hopson’s cellphone. On his property, they found two bodies. They have tentatively been identified as 22-year-old Elizabeth Marie Vanmeter of Carter County, Tenn., and 17-year-old Joslyn Alsup of Cobb County, Ga. Alsup’s father worked with Wright at the carnival, Newman said.“Basically this individual killed three women in an 18-day period,” Newman said.
On March 8, Alsup was reported missing. Wright allegedly shot and killed her the next day. According to court documents obtained by WJHL, Wright claimed they had sex in the woods near his house and that he accidentally shot her while trying to shoot an animal. He then placed her body beneath a stack of logs in the woods near his house, Newman said.
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