Emanuel Lovell Webb, 42, former Fairfield security guard, was charged in 2006 with killing three women in the 1990s. Thursday, the defendant pleaded no contest to these charges. This means that he doesn’t contest the accusations.

According to The Associated Press, Webb was already in a Georgia jail when police charged him, two years ago, with the murder of 34-year-old Elizabeth Gandy in 1992 in Bridgeport, his residence at that time.

Authorities said that DNA created the link between Webb and the murders of Sharon Cunningham, 39, Minnie Sutton, 37, and Sheila Etheridge, 29. The DNA sample was taken of a cigarette butt found at a crime scene.

Prosecutors had enough evidence to make one trial from the cases of Cunningham, Sutton and Gandy, the charges in the Etheridge case being dropped.

The body of Cunningham was found on April 1st, 1990, in a burning car. Sutton was found March 28, 1992, on the floor of her home in Webster Avenue and Gandy’s body was found April 19, 1993 in an empty building.

According to The Associated Press, police said that all three victims presented evidence of sexual actions as they were semi-naked. And all three of them were disfigured. One was also stabbed in the neck, forehead and stomach.

Because the murders were similar, it was believed that a serial killer is on the loose in Connecticut.

On the other hand, Miles Gerety, Webb's public defender, said that DNA evidence didn’t necessarily mean that Webb committed the crimes. Gerety said that another person’s DNA was also found on the cigarette butt.

Joseph Corradino, senior assistant state's attorney said that the crimes happened near Webb’s home and they were very similar. He also said that blood found on the victims was a match with Webb’s DNA.

The suspect will have enough time for redemption as he faces up to 60 years in prison or less if he argues for a lesser term.