The man accused in two murders that rocked the gay community in Tampa took a plea deal that will keep him in prison for life.
Scott Schweickert took a plea deal in exchange for testifying against his co-conspirator, Steven Lorenzo.
- Scott Schweickert will spending life in prison
- Mother of victim Jason Galehouse, Pam Williams, spoke out in court
- Williams: "I hope you're satisfied, because I hope you rot in hell."
Schweickert told authorities he and Lorenzo hatched a plan to lure gay men into their Seminole Heights home and make them permanent sex slaves.
Jason Galehouse and Michael Wachholtz were both sexually assaulted and killed, Schweickert claims, at the hands of both men.
Galehouse was dismembered, his body parts dumped in several different trash cans around Tampa.
His mother, Pam Williams, addressed Schweickert before he took the plea deal. Williams was holding a picture of her late son.
“Schweickert, I want you to look at this picture. Take a good look at this picture. I look at it every single day,” she said. “I hope you remember this. I hope you burn in hell for this. You took my only son’s life away from him. I don’t have a grave, a body or a tombstone. I have the city dump with my son ground up like a hamburger meat in the dirt. I hope you’re satisfied, because I hope you rot in hell."
Lorenzo is already spending a life sentence in federal prison on drug charges relating to the crime. However, the state could bring murder charges against him.
And with Schweickert’s new testimony, Williams says she hopes to see her son’s other alleged killer pay the price.