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In 1979, Pruett was given $800, a new name (Charles "Sonny" Pearson), and placed in the federal witness protection program after testifying about a federal prison slaying in Atlanta, Georgia. He then began his crime spree under his alias. Pruett would later claim that he killed the cellmate.[3]
Pruett killed Peggy Lowe after he kidnapped her as he robbed the Jackson, Mississippi savings and loan where she worked; Bobbie Jean Robertson, a convenience store clerk in Fort Smith, Arkansas; and two convenience store clerks in Colorado. He received a life sentence for Lowe's murder, two more life sentences for the murders in Colorado, and the death penalty for Robertson's murder.
On trial in New Mexico for the 2 March 1981 murder of his common-law wife, Pamela Sue Barker (aka Michelle Lynn Pearson), Pruett admitted that he had robbed and killed in order to support a $4,000 a week cocaine habit, but denied that he killed Barker, who was beaten to death, then set on fire. He was convicted, and given a third life sentence.[4] From death row, he asked a Mississippi newspaper to pay him $20,000 to disclose the location of Barker's engagement ring, and offered to reveal the location of a Florida victim's body in exchange for a paid appearance on Geraldo.