Man recently released from Florida prison confesses to killing pregnant mother and her 6-year-old in 2002

A person who not too long ago completed serving nearly all of a 20-year jail sentence in Florida confessed to the deadly stabbings of a pregnant lady and her son in 2002, the Heflin Police Division mentioned in an announcement launched Friday.

Lewis Ladon Spivey, 39, was taken into custody by authorities after warrants have been obtained for 2 homicide fees on June 26, police mentioned, and he was taken to the Cleburne County jail in Alabama. 

It was “an in depth investigation involving a number of companies over the course of twenty years,” police mentioned. 

Spivey had been not too long ago launched early from a Florida jail the place he was sentenced in 2010 to fifteen years for theft with a gun or lethal weapon and 5 years for aggravated assault after the 2009 offenses occurred, Florida Division of Corrections information present.

In September of 2002, the our bodies of Monica and Dalton Rollins have been discovered at their residence on Sugar Hill Drive in Heflin, authorities say. Each had been fatally stabbed days earlier than they have been discovered. Monica Rollins’ youngest son, who was 3 on the time, was discovered unhurt inside the house.

Spivey has given a “full confession whereby he outlined the occasions that day and has taken sole duty for each murders,” police mentioned. His relationship or connection to the Rollins household is unknown.

Heflin, Alabama, is about 76 miles from Birmingham.