Garrett Mason admits helping kill two teen girls

“I committed two murders,” Garrett Mason told a judge in a Joplin courtroom Monday. Mason had reached a plea deal in the 2009 stabbing deaths of Anne Reid and Kylie Leyva, the Joplin Globe reported. For pleading guilty to two counts of second-degree murder, the 19-year-old was sentenced to two life sentences, but he’ll be eligible for parole in a little more than 25 years (by that time, he’ll be 45).

Mason admitted helping kill Reed, 18, and Leyva, 14, on May 24, 2009. He reportedly agreed to testify against Levi Dipman, who was charged in the slayings a month ago. According to Ozarks First, court documents alleged that Mason, Dipman and another man talked about killing the girls with a “butcher knife,” and Dipman allegedly said, “Kill them, cut them and make their blood decorate the walls.”