East Texas Man Confesses To Two Murders

An East Texas man has reportedly confessed and has been indicted for killing a woman whose body was found in a wooded area in July and another woman in 2006. Forty-one -year old Joseph Wayne Burnette, Jr. of Longview is charged with murdering Felishia Pearson and a woman identified only as “ Lavender Doe” because she has never been identified. Burnette is being held in the Gregg County jail on a total $2.5 million bond.  He is said to be under a suicide watch.