After maintaining his innocence for more than four decades, the man accused of kidnapping and killing 17-year-old Western Hills High School junior Carla Walker in 1974 waived his right to a jury trial and changed his plea to guilty Tuesday morning. About 8:40 a.m., 78-year-old Glen Samuel McCurley entered Judge Elizabeth Beach's Tarrant County courtroom, was sworn in, and soon after changed his plea from not guilty to guilty. Beach began the third day of the trial by saying she had received a document in which McCurley had confessed to Walker's kidnapping and murder. She asked McCurley if he understood that he had a right to proceed with the jury trial but that by signing the agreement he was waiving his right to that trial and was proceeding with a guilty plea. He responded to the judge that he was "guilty" and was immediately sentenced to life in prison and the trial was concluded. Following McCurley's plea change, the victim's sister told McCurley during a victim's impact statement that he should have confessed his guilt sooner and that he'd put her family through hell. “I wish you’d done this a long time ago. I spent 17 years in the same bedroom with my sister. I knew her. She was 4 feet 11 inches, 100 pounds. You had choices. Lots of choices that night. You went out to kill somebody,” said Stone. “You kept saying in your confession that, ‘that wasn’t you,’ ‘it just wasn’t you.’ That’s you.” Stone invited McCurley to write her a letter and come completely clean about that night. She also asked that he confess to any other potential crime. “I want to know if you’ve done this to anybody else. You need to bring that out because those families need to know too. You have nothing to lose at this point,” she said. There is indeed another victim in this case. Walker’s boyfriend, Rodney McCory, was with her when she was pulled from his car. “It’s been 47 years. I had a cloud of suspicion on me for all those years. That’s torment,” said McCoy following the trial

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