Self-Proclaimed ‘Serial Killer’ Who Known as Himself ‘Michael Myers’ Sentenced for 3 Extra Murders

Joshua Dotson, 25, is already serving a sentence of 102 years for the homicide of his girlfriend and her unborn little one, which he stated was for “snitching on him” about extra murders.

That sentencing got here on Halloween 2024. This 12 months, it was on Valentine’s Day that his extra 159-year sentence got here down, based on the Shelby County District Lawyer’s Workplace.

The newest sentence comes after Dotson pleaded responsible to 3 extra first-degree homicide costs, one every for victims, Reginald Anderson, Renita Bennett, and Divieon Parker. He additionally pleaded responsible to 3 counts of reckless endangerment with a lethal weapon.

The newest sentencing comes after he was convicted on two first-degree homicide costs in August 2024. All of his sentences are set to run consecutively, which means his whole sentence is 261 years behind bars.

“After 5 years, we’re happy to lastly have justice for Dotson’s a number of victims,” stated prosecutor Regina Lucreziano within the DA’s press launch. “Whereas no period of time in jail will deliver the victims again to their family members, we’re content material that he won’t ever be a risk to our neighborhood once more.”

On June 12, 2020, the Memphis Police Division responded to a taking pictures name and located Jamesha Covson, 19, affected by a gunshot wound, per their launch on the time. She was taken to a close-by hospital the place she and her unborn child each died.

In line with True Crime Information, police believed that Dotson and Covson had gotten into an argument “a few Fb put up and her being pregnant,” and that he shot on the dwelling as he was leaving, fleeing the scene of the crime.

Simply two hours after the taking pictures, Dotson allegedly posted a memorial for her on Fb, per the DA’s workplace, telling her to “Fly excessive.” The DA stated authorities believed that put up was “a calculated try and distance himself from the crime.”

Her household reportedly acquired a name from her moments earlier than she was shot, wherein Covson stated she was leaving Dotson. It was the final time they heard from her.

FOX 13 beforehand reported that in his trial, Dotson took the stand in his personal protection and referred to as himself a “serial killer.” He additionally reportedly claimed he killed Covson “for snitching on him” about three extra murders — and stated, “I’m Michael Myers,” the masked killer within the Halloween motion pictures starring Jamie Lee Curtis.

The three different murders, he stated, occurred between 2019 and 2020. Police subsequently linked him to the taking pictures deaths of Parker on November 19, 2019, and Bennett and Anderson on Could 24, 2020. All three killings have been within the Memphis space.