‘Budding Serial Killer’ Murdered, Ate Residents Lacking from Psychological Well being Facility: Lawsuit

22-year-old Jared Ondrea’s physique has by no means been discovered, however he was declared lifeless in 2023, allegedly following a “graphic” confession from Marc-Anthony Cantrell.

Along with Ondrea, Cantrell additionally allegedly admitted to the killing of Deshea Butler, who went lacking from the identical facility.

Per WIS 10, the lawsuit was filed by Ondrea’s grandmother, Peggy, towards the South Carolina Division of Psychological Well being (SCDMH), nicely as New Hope Residence Options LLC, the power in query. Per the go well with, SCDMH advisable New Hope to the household, who declare they’d no concept the power additionally “served as a midway home for launched convicted criminals.”

Amongst them was Cantrell, who the go well with claims had a “harmful felony historical past,” together with allegedly setting hearth to his grandmother’s home to “cowl up the very fact he had brutally killed the household’s three canine in what was described by police as a ‘ugly’ scene.”

Describing Cantrell’s look, the go well with stated he was “onerous to overlook” as a result of “throughout his time in jail, Cantrell had gotten satan horns tattooed on his brow, signifying his love and worship of Devil.”

Based on the household’s account, they final noticed Jared alive on March 20, 2023 — one month after he moved into the power. His grandmother had taken him to a close-by lake, earlier than dropping him again off earlier than curfew that very same day.

When his grandparents returned two days later, on March 22, he did not meet them outdoors and no one on the facility answered the entrance door, per the go well with. It wasn’t till the following day they are saying they heard from New Hope, who allegedly advised them he had been lacking since he was dropped off by the household.

His disappearance, in accordance with his family, was “alarmingly out-of-character for Jared,” who they are saying most popular isolating in his room. Regardless of a search, his physique was by no means discovered.

4 months after Jared’s disappearance, one other resident on the identical facility, Deshea Butler, on the additionally vanished. Butler, who was described by police as Cantrell’s “roommate,” was reported lacking on July 4, earlier than his physique was found on the sixth.

Per the go well with, video surveillance led to the arrest of Cantrell for Butler’s homicide on the ninth. It is then he allegedly “confessed to police that he had additionally killed Jared and offered particular, graphic particulars as to how the homicide was carried out and the technique of disposing of Jared’s physique,” in accordance with the lawsuit.

The go well with claims he advised police he killed Jared “by putting a bag over his head and strangling him with a rope,” earlier than placing his physique in a Rubbermaid bin, carrying it outdoors and putting his stays right into a metropolis rubbish can, the place they had been by no means seen once more.

Jared’s household says Cantrell was “little question emboldened by his profitable homicide of Jared” when he killed Deshea, who they declare was additionally killed by way of strangulation earlier than his physique was dumped close by.

Cantrell additionally advised police, per the go well with, “that he killed Jared and Deshea as a result of his alternate persona, Robert Baldwin, had instructed him to take action.” He then allegedly stated he “had lower off one in all Jared’s ears, and each of Deshea’s, and ate them ‘so he may achieve their energy,’” earlier than accumulating Deshea’s blood in a espresso cup, which he drank out of “over a number of days.”

Cantrell was additionally charged with Jared’s homicide in August 2023.

“Sadly, each little bit of this was avoidable,” reads the go well with. “Cantrell — who had each telltale signal of a budding serial killer — by no means ought to have been positioned in a house with weak adults.”

“Upon data and perception, SCDMH didn’t take any acceptable steps to deal with Cantrell or to in any other case forestall the plain hazard that he posed to the general public and to these dwelling in shut proximity to him,” it provides.

An legal professional representing New Hope stated his shoppers raised issues about Cantrell to each regulation enforcement and SCDMH. “It seems, sadly, that among the acceptable professionals didn’t do their finish of the job and I believe in a means it facilitated the actions that occurred,” they stated.

SCDMH has not have commented on the go well with.