Dawes confessed to the murders, while Mason confessed to killing Riley, and both of them were sentenced to death and imprisoned in the Florida State Penitentiary. When the police came back with a search warrant, they arrested the pair after discovering the twelve bodies under the workshop. Though Mason told Dawes she murdered Riley, she had actually given him to the Sheffields, a family she cleaned for. Realizing the police were likely to come back, and wanting to flee before that happened, Dawes, thinking his two-year-old son Riley was merely a liability, ordered Mason to kill him and dispose of the body. After claiming at least eighteen victims, with twelve of them being buried underneath his workshop, Dawes was interviewed by police in 1990 after Mason, overcome by guilt, made an anonymous call to the authorities. Later in life, Dawes became a carpenter, married Sarah Jean Mason, and began torturing and murdering teenage girls around 1985. An only child, Dawes was abused emotionally and sexually by his mother throughout his childhood.
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