Baltimore man allegedly admits to killing and dismembering 2 people in 2014

BALTIMORE (TCN) -- A 45-year-old man potentially helped close two cold cases when he walked into a police station and confessed to killing and dismembering two people more than a decade ago.

According to the Baltimore Police Department, in the early evening of Jan. 12, Scott Barnett went to the Southeast District station and said he needed to speak with a detective about a murder. While in an interview room, he allegedly admitted to fatally stabbing 41-year-old Terrill Lehman and 46-year-old Charles Webster at a home on the 1600 block of Ralworth Road at the end of 2014.

Family members who reported Lehman and Webster missing to the Baltimore Police Department said they were last seen Dec. 18, 2014, on Ralworth Road.

WMAR-TV reports Barnett allegedly used a saw to dismember their bodies, then disposed of their remains in different trash cans around the city. The mother of Barnett’s child reportedly helped him, but she died in 2022 from drowning and fentanyl intoxication.

Barnett reportedly lived in the same home as Lehman and Webster, with Barnett in the basement and the other two on the first floor. The three went to the same methadone clinic, according to WMAR. Barnett alleged Webster extorted him for money and drugs as a way to let Barnett continue to stay in the home.

Detectives reportedly showed Barnett photos of the two victims, and he wrote "I stabbed her" and "I killed him" on them.

Court records show Barnett is being charged with two counts each of first-degree murder, second-degree murder, first-degree assault, and dangerous weapon with intent to injure.

Neither Lehman’s nor Webster’s remains have been found.

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