Police have dropped charges against a suspect in the slaying of an exotic dancer, saying she may be the victim of a serial killer.
Police told the Arizona Republic that James Dewayne Mullins recanted his confession last July after police interviewed him over the death of 19-year-old Georgia Thompson who had been a dancer at the Skin Cabaret strip club in Scottsdale. Mullins will now be extradited to Kentucky where he faces felony charges of bail jumping in an unrelated case.
Investigators said there was insufficient evidence to hold Mullins, adding that Thompson appears to be a victim of the Baseline Killer, a serial murderer being sought by police.
Mullins was originally charged with murder after he reportedly told his friend Curtis Maxie at McCracken County Jail in Paducah, Ky. where both were held, that he had committed the crime.
Both men told detectives that they had gone to the strip club just before the murder.
Mullins admitted that he told Thompson he would pay her to have sex with him but when he met her three blocks away from the club, she then pulled a gun on him and demanded money. Mullins claimed he grabbed the gun and shot her.
But police said the story seemed unlikely since Thompson was 10 miles away in Tempe at the time.
