1993-07-23

Summary:

Three months following his graduation from a "boot camp" and early release following his car theft conviction, Titsworth and Christine Marie Sossaman shared a trailer in Amarillo.

According to a confession later given by Titsworth, he and Sossaman had argued, she went to sleep, and he went out to buy crack and a pill he believed was LSD.

When he returned to the trailer, Titsworth got an axe from a closet and blacked out, although he said he did remember hitting his girlfriend four or five times.

Her body was later discovered in the trailer with 16 axe wounds.

A friend of Sossaman testified at trial that the victim told her the day before she was killed that she intended to ask Titsworth to leave because she believed her boyfriend had been stealing from her.

After the attack, Titsworth took her car along with items from the trailer home that he sold to buy more crack cocaine, then returned repeatedly to the murder scene to take more property to sell for drug money.