Missouri Man Dubbed ‘Package Killer’ Admits to 2 Murders
ST. LOUIS—A Missouri man dubbed the “Package Killer” for his method of disposing bodies received two life sentences Tuesday after admitting to killing two women in the St. Louis area more than 30 years ago.
Gary Muehlberg, 74, has now pleaded guilty to killing three women and faces a hearing next week in the death of a fourth. Remains of all four women were found in 1990 or 1991, packed into various types of containers.
Muehlberg was already in prison for killing a man in 1993 when he was charged last year with four counts of fist-degree murder in the women’s death. The cases were solved after O’Fallon Detective Jodi Weber found DNA evidence while examining old, unsolved homicides. Muehlberg confessed after prosecutors agreed not to seek the death penalty….