WV WV - Carrie Baker, 25, & Carolyn Sauerwein, 40, Clarksburg, 2008 & 2009

[Sharedspirit]

Another Missing girl from the area.

Faithann Willis

On August 6, 2005 twenty-one year old Faithann Willis went missing in Marion County.

Now almost four years later her family is still left without answers.

 

[Tonia]

Police on Thursday identified two women they say were killed by a Clarksburg handyman who committed suicide as authorities closed in to arrest him last week.

The skeletal remains of Carrie Lynn Baker, 26, of Clarksburg were found in Barbour County...

http://www.dailymail.com/ap/ApTopStories/200906110392

 

[chaddylex]

http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=60791

At their daily briefing, Thursday, Clarksburg officials identified the two victims of James Childers.
The remains of Carrie Lynn Baker, 26 of Clarksburg, were found in Barbour County.

Baker's family says they last spoke to her on July 13th, 2008. She called from an unknown cell phone and she sounded scared, they told 12 News. That is around the same time that Childers confessed to murdering a woman, on the audio tape he sent to police.

Carolyn Sauerwein, 40 of Philippi, was identified as the body found on Childers' family farm in Braxton County.

Authorities believe Sauerwein was killed on that property.

Sauerwein was reported missing to Philippi Police, last week.

According to family members, Sauerwein was Childers' friend and the white Chevy Aveo Clarksburg Police found last week, was Sauerwein's.

She was described by family members as an "intelligent and compassionate person, who possessed degree in finance from WVU".

Family members say she suffered from a mental illness and that they had encouraged her to stay away from Childers.

Childers was mentally abusive towards Sauerwein and would take money from her, according to family members.

Police did not say how the woman were killed or if they knew each other.
identified the bodies found last week.

 

[Kat]

http://wvgazette.com/News/200909030602

September 3, 2009
FBI calls W.Va. serial killer a suspect in cold case

A handyman who confessed to killing five people before committing suicide in June is now suspected in an unsolved 2004 slaying, and Clarksburg police said Thursday they will reopen that case at the urging of FBI behavioral experts who have declared James Childers a serial killer...

Two page article. A lot more information at link above.

 

[myzzy]

http://www.cbs59.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=86571

CLARKSBURG -- On June 2, 2009, the area was shocked by the explosion of a story that had been a year in the making under everyone's radar.
Now the public gets a chance to hear the story, told by James Childers himself.

Investigators released transcripts of the taped confession of James Childers Thursday afternoon.

Childers describes the confession as an insight into what makes a killer a killer.

In addition to the arsons, the handyman-about-town also admits to killing five women and burying four of them on family farm property in Braxton County before killing himself at the Towne House West in June 2008.

Link to Transcripts - http://www.wboy.com/wboyUploads/childers.pdf

 

[officer'swife 2010]

Wow this hits close 2 home. I grew up near here and never heard about it.

 

[AmberWV304]

Does anyone happen to have a working link to the audio and/or written confession of Childers? I found it once on WBOY, I believe but the page is now gone.

Lost Valley Studios in WV is filming a documentary about this guy and his victims and it resparked my interest in it and I would like to find and listen to the confession that was released or at least read the written confession if anyone still has it or knows where I can find it.

You can find Trailers for the documentary titled Mountain of the Missing on Lost Valley Studios Facebook page at https://m.facebook.com/lostvalleystudios/.

 

[Sabs]

Does anyone happen to have a working link to the audio and/or written confession of Childers? I found it once on WBOY, I believe but the page is now gone.

Lost Valley Studios in WV is filming a documentary about this guy and his victims and it resparked my interest in it and I would like to find and listen to the confession that was released or at least read the written confession if anyone still has it or knows where I can find it.

You can find Trailers for the documentary titled Mountain of the Missing on Lost Valley Studios Facebook page at https://m.facebook.com/lostvalleystudios/.

https://killerscrawlspace.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/transcript_of_childers.pdf