Maryland man arrested in Bayou La Batre was wanted for gruesome hatchet murder

MOBILE, Al.
The Maryland man arrested at a Bayou La Batre hotel Wednesday is charged in a gruesome killing, involving a hatchet.

Larry Eugene Horton                           Angelena Horton

Larry Eugene Horton, 37, was arrested Wednesday at the Bayou La Batre Inn & Suites on Wintzell Avenue. His wife, Angelena Horton, who was with him there, was also arrested for hindering and resisting arrest.
Larry Horton is charged with the first-degree murder of 18-year-old Ryan Wesley Jackson, who was last seen on Oct. 12 by his nine-month pregnant girlfriend. Police found his body, chopped up, but not completely dismembered, on Saturday.
"This was a brutal murder. He was struck multiple times with a hatchet on various parts of his body," said Elise Armacost, spokeswoman for the Baltimore County Police Department.
Blood was found on the floor, walls and ceiling of Horton’s living room in a home outside the Baltimore city limits, according to a police report.
A hatchet, bloody curtains and the victim’s wallet were found in trash bags there.
"The carpet in the living room was soaking wet, appearing to have had a significant amount of cleaning solution applied to it," according the report, which quotes witnesses saying that Horton borrowed his mother’s Bissell carpet cleaning machine and took it inside his home.
Anonymous tips led authorities to Bayou La Batre.
The Hortons are not known to have family or friends here, said Mobile County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Sgt. Joe Mahoney.
A task force involving the U.S. Marshals and local law enforcement agencies made the arrests.
The Hortons are being held in the Mobile County Metro Jail pending extradition, officials said.