SOUTHAVEN Miss. — Police said they searching for the suspect in a double murder in Missouri, who may be in the Mid-South.
James Horn Jr.’s ex-wife didn’t want to be identified but told WREG she left him fast after he started acting strange.
“I had a hope chest in my room and he tried to put me in once,” she said.
Years later he apparently found one for Sandra Sutton.
She ran for help weeks ago and told police Horn kept her locked in a wooden box.
Sutton and her son were found dead.
They were shot and killed in their Missouri home.
“We was all telling her that she need to stay hid and stay hid good,” said Cassandra Pottoff, Sutton’s daughter.
Horn wasn’t caught last month and now police from Missouri to Mississippi think he killed Sutton.
Southaven police were worried Horn’s ex-wife and son, who both still live in Southaven, could be in danger.
“They’re going to be relocated for a time until we know whether it’s safe,” said Lt. Mark Little.
They’re not the only reason Horn could come back to the Mid-South.
A Shelby County woman told us her daughter was raped for hours in a truck by Horn after she tried to break up with him.
Police surrounded Horn’s Missouri home and found nothing.
The man with a history of raping and torturing women from Memphis to Missouri seemed to be getting even more dangerous.