The Associated Press
WALTON, Ky. - A Kentucky man who served 13 years in prison for strangling a Dry Ridge woman in 1987 confessed to fatally choking a woman in Florida last week, a sheriff said.
Darrell Mitchell was 16 when he strangled Linda Jett, 34, and hid her body in the basement of the Old Kentucky Motel in Walton, which his mother managed.
He was released from prison in November 1999, after serving 65 percent of his 20-year sentence.
Manatee County Sheriff Charlie Wells said Mitchell, now 34, was arrested Saturday on charges that he fatally choked a woman during consensual sex at her home 40 minutes south of Tampa.
Wells said Susan E. Tharp, 48, was reported missing Thursday when she failed to report to her job. Wells said he received a tip that Mitchell had been at the house Wednesday. Mitchell has been charged with one count of murder.
He remains in the Manatee County Jail.
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