Cory Morris
Cory Deonn Morris (born May 10, 1978), known as The Crackhead Killer, is an American serial killer, rapist and necrophile who killed at least five prostitutes at his trailer in Phoenix, Arizona between a period of eight months from September 2002 to April 2003. Morris was convicted of all 5 murders, resulting in a death sentence. Biography. Morris was born on May 10, 1978, in Oklahoma City, the first in a family of three children. As a teenager, he attended Douglass High School in Oklahoma City, and once in college attended the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) programs , aspiring to become a military officer. At age 22, he moved to Phoenix, Arizona, but with nowhere to live, he recommended his aunt Melva Willis to bring his trailer behind their home. Subsequently, while in Phoenix, Morris picked a job up at a karaoke machine in a local bar named Fat Cats, which local prostitutes and pimps visited frequently. Thanks to his friendly manner, Morris made friends with plenty of neighbors and coworkers, whom they subsequently nicknamed “Huggy Bear”. Murders. As victims, Morris targeted female sex workers whom he arranged meetings with. Later, during his confessions, Morris claimed all the  women had died either of a drug overdose, but abruptly changed all of the stories to claim he accidentally strangled them. Trial and imprisonment. In the months during the murders, friends of Morris noticed a body odor coming from him, which he brushed off from the heat from walking to work. On April 12, Morris' uncle was snooping though his trailer when he discovered the maggot ridden body of Julie Castillo under blankets in his trailer, after which he called the police. Upon this, Morris was arrested. In a subsequent autopsy, Castillo was found to have been dead for a  couple of days before her discovery. The other victims were found in close proximity to Morris' trailer, for such he was questioned, and he subsequently confessed but deflected responsibility away from him saying that they all overdosed, but later changed the stories to that he accidentally killed them. The evidence that was presented at trial, including his deflection away from responsibility, the jury had no choice but to find him guilty of five counts of murder, and subsequently he was sentenced to death.