JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Police Tuesday said they have charged a man already charged with killing five young, black women in Jacksonville last winter with another murder -- a 24-year-old mother of three who was found dead more than four years ago.
Sheriff John Rutherford said his officers have charged Paul Durousseau with the previously unsolved murder of Tyresa Mack (pictured, left). She was robbed, assualted and killed inside her A. Phillip Randolph Boulevard apartment on July 25, 1999.
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Her three children were not home at the time.
"It really hurts me when I have to look at her kids because they can't really understand where their mom is," Mack's aunt, Patricia Gibson, told Channel 4 right after the murder.
Rutherford said police investigated Durousseau's involvement in Mack's death because of similarities to his other victims. An arrest warrant was issued after DNA evidence connected him to her murder.
In addition to charges of first-degree murder in the deaths of five women killed between Dec. 19, 2002, and Feb. 5, 2003, Durousseau is also charged with the murder of a woman in Columbus, Ga., in 1997. He was stationed there while in the Army.
Durousseau, 32, was arrested Feb. 6 for violating probation in a 2001 rape case -- one day after the last two bodies of the five women he is accused of killing was killed were found. While he was in jail, police began to connect the murders of the women aged 17 to 20 to Durousseau.
On June 17, Durouseeau was formally charged with the murder of five the women, ages 17 to 20, over a two-month period. Georgia police filed charges against him later that month.
Investigators are looking into unsolved murders in Florida, Georgia, Oklahoma, Alabama, California and Germany -- all places in in all the places Durousseau has lived in the past 10 years.
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is comparing DNA in "cold cases" to that of Durousseau.
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