Associated Press
NEW BRITAIN, Conn. — Court records show that Connecticut authorities searching the prison cell of a convicted killer charged with six more slayings found notes referencing a serial killer memorabilia website and a newspaper article about Florida’s death penalty.
Search warrants filed in court show the items were seized this year from William Devin Howell’s cell at Garner Correctional Institution in Newtown.
Howell is expected to participate via videoconference Wednesday in a pretrial hearing in New Britain Superior Court.
Howell is serving a 15-year sentence for manslaughter for killing a woman. He is charged with killing five other women and one man. Police say all were killed in 2003.
The victims’ bodies were found buried behind a shopping center.
Howell’s lawyer has urged the public to remember Howell is innocent until proved guilty.