Except, that’s not the full story. Not nearly. Because James David Martin ceased to be a normal kid when he was six years old, when his mother beat his sister to death. It was later revealed that Martin not only strangled Thomas in the woods that day, he sodomized him as well. After serving seven years in jail, Martin soon went back in, this time for strangling a relative and stabbing him in the neck. Three months after being released in 2005, Martin murdered his girlfriend, Cicela Santiago, and left her body in a parking lot trash bin. Most recently, in 2012, he pled guilty to the 1998 rape and murder of Marleny Cruz, after new DNA evidence connected him with the crime. When asked if there were other victims, Detective Malcolm Reiman told the New York Times, “I would say it’s a very strong possibility.”