EDINBURG, Texas – A character from the movie Wrong Turn called police the other day and admitted that he was the man responsible for two separate murders committed in the ’70s.
Jeffrey Cutlip is a 63-year-old sex offender with a long history of arrests and stints in prison, including an 11 year prison sentence for a 1982 first-degree sodomy and first-degree burglary conviction.
But it seems Cutlip has either grown a conscience or now needs a place to live, because he called a Texas police department on Saturday and wanted to talk to detectives “about some bad things he had done in the past.” Then, according to a police spokesman, Cutlip confessed to three to four homicides in Portland.
One of his alleged victims was 15-year-old Julie Marie Bennett. She was last seen on April 4, 1977 walking with Cutlip, then 27, after stopping in a convenience store to buy beer and cigarettes. Her body was found two days later face-down in a creek. An autopsy showed Bennett had died from drowning.
Cutlip also admitted to the strangulation death of 44-year-old Marlene Clair Carlson. Her body was found in her home on a bed by a relative on Aug. 6, 1975. Her hands were bound and a belt was wrapped around her neck.
Two cold case detectives from Portland flew to Brownsville on Sunday and interviewed Cutlip for a few hours. Afterwards he was arrested and charged with the two murders and placed in the Cameron County jail where he awaits extradition to Oregon.
Who knows why Cutlip really decided to confess. Maybe he truly is sorry for what he has done and is searching for some kind of redemption. I just hope he has also found Jesus so I don’t have to hang out with him after I die.
Tags: Crime, Jeffrey Cutlip, Julie Bennett, murder cold case, Oregon, Texas


























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