A South Carolina man has pleaded guilty to killing his 25-year-old girlfriend and setting her car ablaze with her body inside.
Jarrett Haskell Davis entered the plea on Monday and was was sentenced to more than four decades in prison, WRDW reported.
The remains of Megan Bodiford were found in her burned vehicle on April 30, 2024, days after she was reported missing by a friend who had gotten a worrisome text from her a day earlier, as CrimeOnline reported.
“If you don’t hear from me in 30 minutes, he killed me. He has a gun,” the text read.
Investigators said Davis shot and killer Bodiford on April 25 then parked her vehicle on a utility corridor and set it afire. Bodiford’s 4-month-old baby was found at Davis’s home unharmed.
Davis pleaded guilty to four counts and the sentences for each will be served concurrently, WRDW said. On the main charge, murder, he was sentenced to 43 years in prison. The others: five years for possession of a weapon during a violent crime, 15 years for arson, and 10 years for desecration of human remains.
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[Featured image: Megan Bodiford/Bamberg County Sheriff’s Office]
