McGray pleads guilty to 1985 killing

Michael Wayne McGray, who says he has killed 16 people, pleaded guilty Tuesday in the 1985 murder of a teenager in Nova Scotia.

A hunter found the decomposed body of Elizabeth Gale Tucker, 17, near Grosses Coques in Digby County. She had been hitchhiking along a logging road.

McGray, 35, entered the plea in a 30-minute appearance in Nova Scotia Supreme Court. McGray is serving concurrent life sentences for five other murders.

"There are some situations in life that can be legitimately described as mysteries," Judge Joseph Kennedy said. "Michael Wayne McGray is one of those mysteries, perhaps even to himself. It would appear to be an evil mystery."

Last Friday, McGray pleaded guilty in the murder of an 11-year-old girl in Moncton, N.B. in 1998.