Jack Spillman
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Jack Owen Spillman III (born August 30, 1969) is an American serial killer from Spokane, Washington. He is known as the Werewolf Butcher.
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Spillman’s mother had a total of four husbands, with whom she had four children. He and his three siblings never knew for certain which husband was the father of which child. He dropped out of school in the 9th grade; some news reports state that he had most recently been employed as either a butcher or a roofer.
Spillman was convicted of the April 1995 murders of Rita Huffman, 48, and her daughter Mandy, 15, and the 1994 murder of Penny Davis, 9.
Huffman and her daughter were both found in their East Wenatchee, Washington, home, sexually mutilated and posed in provocative positions. Spillman's black pickup truck matched the description of a vehicle seen in a parking lot near the victims' home on the night of the murder. Also, Spillman's pickup was stopped by an East Wenatchee police officer in the parking lot of a VFW hall nearby that evening, and subsequently, a 12-inch knife covered in blood was recovered there. It appeared to match a knife set in the victims' house. Before his arrest, Spillman was kept under surveillance for a week while laboratory tests were performed.
Spillman reportedly believed himself to be a real werewolf, and he stalked his prey as he assumed such a beast would. He fanaticized about torturing women, and expressed his urge to cut the heart out of his victim in order to consume it. Additionally, he desired to keep his victims in a cave.
Under threat of the death penalty, Spillman later would admit to killing Davis, of Tonasket, Washington. Six months after her September 1994 disappearance, her body had been found in a shallow grave some twelve miles from her home. She also had been posed in a provocative position.
Spillman pleaded guilty to three counts of aggravated murder, and was sentenced to life in prison in 1996. He is serving his sentence at Washington State Penitentiary.
According to court documents, "Spillman would declare to [cellmate Mark] Miller that he wanted to be the world’s greatest serial killer". At the time that he pleaded guilty to the three murders, reports stated that Spillman was facing additional charges of first-degree rape, robbery, and burglary. He and a friend were arrested for rape in 1993, but those charges were eventually dropped.