HOUSTON (AP) – One of three homeless men whose skeletal remains were found in an abandoned Houston warehouse was the father of another homeless man charged in the other two deaths, a prosecutor said Friday.
Jamie Walter, 27, is accused of bludgeoning two of the victims with a hammer then burning their bodies before dumping them in the warehouse. He has been charged with capital murder in those two deaths.
“It’s pretty gruesome, very brutal and seemingly senseless and bizarre to some extent,” said Justin Wood, a Harris County District Attorney’s Office prosecutor. Authorities are still trying to determine a motive for the killings.
Walter has not been charged in relation to the third victim who authorities believe was Steven Walter, the suspect’s father, Wood said.
Jamie Walter did not speak in court Friday. He remains jailed without bond.