Nov 13, 2009 11:23 pm US/Eastern
Suspect Confesses to Brutal Rape & Murder of Teen

Kelly McPherson
BALTIMORE (WJZ) ―
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The man sought by police for the brutal rape and murder of a Baltimore City teen confesses to the crime following his capture.
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A family pleaded for him to turn himself in, federal and local police searched for him, and as Kelly McPherson reports Friday morning, the man wanted in the brutal killing of a teen was found outside a convenience store.

Many of the family members are simply exhausted after this week of going through the crime, the manhunt and now the capture, but they say they are at peace knowing the man they know is guilty is behind bars.

A convicted murderer and suspected rapist and murderer of a 15-year-old boy is back in police custody.

Dante Parrish is being charged with assaulting, sodomizing and killing Jason Madison.

The teen's body was found stuffed in his aunt's bedroom closet. Blood and box cutters were left nearby.

Jason's family made its first public plea for justice through WJZ. Police tracked Parrish down at a 7-11 Thursday night.

"We got a lot of tips. The public was very helpful calling in, and we appreciate their help," said Det. Nicole Monroe.

One day after the capture and confession, the family is grateful.

"Majority of the family was thinking that he might of tried to circle back around and do something with them, so now that he's gone you know, feel a lot better," said a cousin who lives in the home where the murder happened.

Many suspected Jason's aunt's friend from the beginning. They say he had made passes at the teen before.

"He had been stalking Jason and making comments of different things he wanted to do to him . Jason was not agreeable, so he decided he would come into my house," said Claudia Couplin, great aunt.

"We trusted him. We did not know that he was that type of person to do anything to my cousin. He was only 15-years-old," said Tara Dudley, cousin.

Parrish has already served 10 years for second degree murder. He was released this past January. He's now being held without bail.

[1] In 1999, a judge sentenced Parrish to prison for first-degree murder.

Last year, at a second trial, Parrish pleaded guilty to a lesser second-degree murder charge and a judge released him because of time already served.

City state's attorney spokeswoman Margaret Burns says prosecutors are closely watching what happens with Parrish.

"It is very frustrating for prosecutors to believe that we have obtained a conviction to have to constantly address post-conviction proceedings," said Burns.