WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – A South Florida man charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend and her two children has pleaded guilty to avoid the possibility of a death sentence.
Clem Beauchamp, 38, of Delray Beach, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder Friday in a Palm Beach County courtroom. He was immediately sentenced to three consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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Beauchamp was accused of killing Felicia Brown, 25, Jermaine McNeil, 10, and Ju'Tyra Allen, 6, in 2010.
Brown's body was found in a West Palm Beach landfill. Her children's bodies were found stuffed inside luggage in a canal bordering Boca Raton and Delray Beach.
Beauchamp's plea comes just before jury selection in his murder trial was scheduled to begin Monday.
The convicted felon faced a potential death sentence if he went to trial.
Court documents filed in 2011 showed that Beauchamp confessed to killing Brown while in a U.S. Marshals Service cell block awaiting a court appearance in West Palm Beach.
Beauchamp was already serving a 10-year federal prison term for possessing an illegal handgun silencer.