CAPTURED: Michael Townson
When a young mother is found brutally beaten to death in 2007, investigators are able to quickly apprehend her killer. But as the years go by, he decides to open up and reveal he has a darker past than anyone could’ve ever imagined.
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A newspaper clipping in the January 20th 2007, publication of Florida Today announcing that Sherri Carman’s friend, Michael Townson, is being charged with her death.
Michael is currently serving 2 lifetime sentences in prison for the murders of Sherri Carman and Linda Little, although he is believed to be responsible for many more homicides.
Please contact the authorities If you have any information about the following cases:
Memphis PD is still trying to identify the other woman Michael says he murdered around December of 1993, so if you have any information about a Black woman who may have had green eyes who went missing from downtown Memphis, call the MPD’s homicide bureau at
901-636-3300.
And if you have any information on the whereabouts of Linda Little’s body, please contact the Daytona Beach Police Department and submit an anonymous tip by texting 274637.
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Episode Source Material
- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL): Family hopes missing woman returns in time for birthday, by Rick Tonyan.
- Florida Today (Cocoa, FL): Mother of three found slain in Titusville home, by Susanne Cervenka.
- The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, FL): Childhood friend arrested in Titusville mother’s death, by Laurin Sellers.
- Florida Today (Cocoa, FL): Man pleads guilty, gets life sentence in woman’s slaying, by Keyonna Summers.
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal (Daytona Beach, FL): Family steps up search for clues to missing woman’s disappearance, by Chris Graham.
- WREG (Memphis, TN): Deadly Confessions, Part 1: Florida serial killer admits to Mid-South murders, by Jessica Gertler.
- WREG (Memphis, TN): Deadly Confessions, online extra: Townson describes first murder, by Jessica Gertler.
- Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Homicide Report.
- Brevard County Sheriff’s Office Suspect Lie Detector Results.
- WREG (Memphis, TN): Deadly Confessions, Part 2: Townson details Memphis murders, by Jessica Gertler.
- WREG (Memphis, TN): Deadly Confessions Part 3: Serial killer reflects on Mississippi murder, by Jessica Gertler.
- City of Daytona Beach (Daytona Beach, FL): Press Release; Subject: 1991 Cold Case Indictment.
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal (Daytona Beach, FL): Daytona Beach police solve 31-year-old cold case, suspect charged with first-degree murder, by Frank Fernandez.
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal (Daytona Beach, FL): Slain Daytona Beach woman’s sister forgives man police said confessed to 31-year-old killing, by Frank Fernandez.
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal (Daytona Beach, FL): Daytona Beach cold case victim’s sister: ‘He said that she screamed and he snapped’, by Frank Fernandez.
- WREG (Memphis, TN): Confessed serial killer with Memphis ties linked to new cold case, by Jessica Gertler.
- WFTV (Orlando, FL): Convicted killer already serving life sentenced for 1991 Daytona Beach cold-case murder, by WFTV.com News Staff.
- The Daytona Beach News-Journal (Daytona Beach, FL): Serial killer avoids possible death sentence by pleading to Daytona Beach cold case killing, by Frank Fernandez.
- Volusia County Judicial Circuit 707 Charging Affidavit.
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