CHILDERS RAN ADS FOR RELATIONSHIPS - Police Returning To Braxton Site

(06/05/2009)
State Police will return to the Copen area of Braxton County to look for additional bodies in what has become a likely serial killing of several Clarksburg area residents.

Police are obtaining some heavy equipment and other resources to continue a search, after one body was already discovered.

James Childers, age 45 (shown left in drivers license photo) claimed he murdered five people before committing suicide at a Clarksburg hotel this week as police approached.

Two bodies have already been found, following a recorded message given police by Childers.

Childers was apparently looking for a relationship in the months before he allegedly committed the murders, placing ads in papers and on-line.