KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas man has been charged with murder in the first degree for the death of a woman found in a motel room in Kansas City, Mo. in April 2010.
Prosecutors believe Curtis Horn, 38, strangled Lakeisha Ross, who was 34-years old, and then burned her body. Firefighters found her body on April 10, 2010 at the Relax Inn Motel, 6300 Blue Parkway.
Horn became a suspect in her murder after he was arrested for the murders of his then-girlfriend and her niece in March 2013. He reportedly told police that he got into an argument with his ex-girlfriend, Brandi Johnson, 34, and “went too far”, strangling her and then setting fire to the apartment to hide evidence, even though he knew the little girl, Amiyah McClenton, 2, was in another room.
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DNA obtained after his arrest for their murders matched DNA taken from the Relax Inn Motel, where beer cans and finger scrapings from Lakeisha Ross were found with his DNA, police said.
Investigators also said that Horn’s phone number was also the last number and the last several calls Ross received.
Horn was convicted of Johnson and McClenton’s murders and is currently in prison serving his sentence for two counts of first-degree murder.