A man has been arrested and charged with murdering a woman after the two had been on a methamphetamine binge, engaged in oral sex, and he later learned that she had AIDS. The man, J.W., 32, has defended himself by claiming that he was afraid that the woman would hurt others with her disease, as reported by My San Antonio. The San Antonio Police and the Texas Rangers arrested J.W. on June 16 in San Antonio.
The murder allegedly occurred in San Antonio. J.W. told a Texas Ranger that E.H., 30, had performed oral sex on him on April 26 while the two had been on methamphetamines. According to the arrest warrant affidavit, that same afternoon J.W. allegedly learned that E.H. had AIDS.
R.S., another woman in the Lufkin neighborhood house with J.W. and E.H., had a conversation with E.H. about her "sickness" – which J.W. allegedly overheard. He asked E.H. to confirm if she had AIDS. R.S. refused to answer and moved from the home's porch over to her Toyota Camry.
The affidavit states that J.W. "appeared astonished to know that (E.H.) had AIDS."
R.S. said she then went back to the house, so she could also get high on methamphetamines and she saw J.W. get inside of the Camry. Then, according to R.S., as a storm moved in and she caught a glimpse of the car's interior – and could see E.H. "flaying her arms around."
J.W. returned to the house sometime later and whispered to R.S., "She's dead." As there was no one else in the car with E.H. she knew that J.W. was the one that had killed her.
The affidavit shows that deputies believe J.W. used an electrical cord to strangle E.H. until she died.
J.W. then asked R.S. for help in disposing of E.H.'s body. Fearful for her own life, though she did not want to participate, R.S. felt compelled to aid J.W. R.S. told deputies that they drove the body over to the Angelina River. J.W. then dragged E.H. away and into the woods.
J.W. admitted to killed E.H. and told deputies that he did it because "she had AIDS and she was killing other people." During a later interview with Texas Rangers J.W. first said that after allowing E.H. to perform oral sex on him he was concerned about contracting AIDS from her but he didn't kill her.
J.W. also told Rangers that he hoped evidence in the Toyota would exonerate him of any wrongdoing. He further stated he had no idea that E.H. was dead before he talked to the police about it.
Another statement J.W. made to the Rangers was that though he didn't think he had blacked out the night E.H. died, he was, however, "sometimes afraid of things he has done while blacked out on a drug binge."
