On July 1, 2013, Amos Joseph Wells III went to his pregnant girlfriend’s home in Fort Worth, Texas and shot her multiple times in the head and stomach. He then killed her mother and her 10-year-old brother. Wells surrendered voluntarily within hours, and in a tearful jailhouse interview told reporters, “There’s no explanation that I …
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