“My name is Melvin David Rees (1928 – October 26, 1995) I was an American serial killer who I committed five murders in Virginia and Maryland between 1957 and 1959. I murdered and sexually assaulted (in that order) Margaret Harold, the girlfriend of US Army soldier Sgt. Roy D. Hudson, during a highway encounter near Annapolis. Two years later, I tortured and murdered the four members of the Jackson family near Fredericksburg, Virginia. After my conviction for the killings, I confessed to two other murders, and authorities believed I was involved in two more.”