A convicted killer from Missouri has pleaded guilty to killing a family in Pampa, Texas in 2005.Twenty six year-old Levi King (a.) changed his plea this morning in a Lubbock, Tx, courtroom. But King’s story started hundreds of miles away near Anderson, Mo.

A relative of 70 year-old Orlie McCool and his 47 year-old daughter-in-law Dawn Burr McCool found them shot to death in a rural Pineville, MO., home on Sept. 30, 2005.

Orlie McCool was shot once with a 9 mm weapon, while Dawn McCool suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Ballistics tests determined that shell casings found at the scene matched a 9 mm Smith and Wesson handgun taken from the home of Scott King, Levi King’s father. [...]