Roommates vanished in 2014. Now man confesses to dismembering them, Maryland cops say
A 45-year-old man entered a Baltimore police station the evening of Jan. 12 with information on a decade-old missing persons case — and then confessed to his involvement, police said.
Scott Barnett told officers that he had killed 41-year-old Terrill Lehman and 46-year-old Charles Webster in November 2014, the month before their loved ones reported them missing, Baltimore police said in a Jan. 15 news release.
Lehman and Webster’s remains have not been located, police said. Barnett said that, after stabbing them to death, he dismembered their bodies and discarded them in various trash cans around the city, WBAL reported.
According to a police report, Barnett was roommates with the two men, and he told investigators that he caught them “under the influence” of pills and stabbed them, WBAL reported.
He said Webster would extort money and drugs from him for living in the home, police said according to the Baltimore Banner.
Barnett, the two roommates and the mother of Barnett’s children lived in the home, police told WMAR. The woman also helped kill and dismember the two roommates, according to the police report, but she died in 2022, the Baltimore Banner reported.
Barnett was arrested and is facing several charges, including first- and second-degree murder, according to court documents. He’s held without bond.
His attorney information was not listed.
Barnett is scheduled to appear in court on Feb. 18.
This story was originally published January 16, 2025 at 11:48 AM with the headline "Roommates vanished in 2014. Now man confesses to dismembering them, Maryland cops say."
