Man newly released from prison confesses to killing pregnant mother and her 6-year-old in 2002

A man who just finished serving most of a 15 year prison sentence in Florida has confessed to the fatal stabbings of a pregnant mother and her son in Alabama in 2002, authorities said Friday.

Lewis Ladon Spivey, 39, was taken into custody after his release Tuesday and accused of murder in the killings of Monica Rollins, 23, and Dalton Rollins, 6, according to prison records and a statement from the Heflin Police Department.