A 45-year-old man walked into a Baltimore police station this week with a startling admission, police say: A decade ago, he killed two people whose bodies have never been found.

That’s because, he told them, he dismembered them and placed pieces of their bodies in trash cans around the area.

Scott Anthony Barnett is being held without bond after being charged with two counts of murder in the killings.

Police wrote in charging documents that Barnett went to the Southeastern Police district station on Sunday evening to confess the killings.

Barnett, who is from Dundalk and told police he has been homeless, said he wasn’t sure of the victims’ names, but detectives pieced together their identities — Charles Webster, 46, and Terill Lehman, 41 — and confirmed they had been reported as missing, they wrote in charging documents.

Police say Barnett told them that in November 2014, he was living with his child’s mother, Ashlie Barnett, in the basement of a home near the Northwood Shopping Center in Northeast Baltimore.

Webster and Lehman lived on the first floor, and Barnett told police Webster would “extort money and drugs” from him and Ashlie Barnett in exchange for allowing them to live at the home.

Barnett said one day when he claimed Webster and Lehman were high on drugs, he and Ashlie Barnett attacked the pair, stabbing them in the neck and stomach, police wrote in court records.

They then got a shower curtain, dragged the bodies into the basement, and dismembered them using saws, he said.

He said they “double-bagged” the body parts and discarded them around the neighborhood. He cleaned the home, and threw away the tools and knives with the body parts.

Ashlie Barnett died in the summer of 2022 after drowning while intoxicated on fentanyl, cocaine and methadone, the chief medical examiner’s office told police.

After Barnett’s confession, detectives say they still didn’t know who the victims were. Barnett believed the male victim’s name was “Charles Reed” with a nickname of “Buck”; but working with missing persons detectives, homicide detectives found a missing persons report for Webster. Their databases showed Webster was known as “Buck.”

They showed Barnett a photo of Webster, and he wrote underneath of it: “I killed him.”

Similarly, Barnett believed Lehman was named “Tara Reed,” but detectives found a missing persons flier for Lehman, who was last seen with Webster. “That’s Tara,” he said when shown her photo.

Court records show Barnett has a criminal history including assault and theft. He most recently pleaded guilty in 2023 to second-degree assault in Baltimore County and received a three-year suspended sentence.

Prior to that, he was convicted in 2019, also in Baltimore County, of second-degree assault, receiving a sentence of three years with all but 18 months suspended.

In that case, Barnett was arrested after two people saw him dragging Ashlie Barnett across the ground by her hair as she cried and screamed for help. She was bleeding from her nose and lip, but tried to tell police Scott Barnett was not responsible.

She later testified at trial that she had started a fight with him after taking his wallet so she could get high. Jurors twice reported that they were deadlocked, but the judge instructed them to keep deliberating, and Scott Barnett was convicted.

Lehman’s family held a “Honk 4 The Missing” rally with the Baltimore chapter of the Guardian Angels in February 2015. Relatives said they felt like their concerns about her being missing weren’t being heard.

“She was a good person. She was a caring person,” her father said in a YouTube video of the rally.

Fliers had also been posted across an array of sites dedicated to finding the missing.

Attempts to reach relatives were not immediately successful.