Suspected serial killer, 43, is charged with a THIRD murder: Trucker is accused of killing a pregnant woman, 21, who went missing in Michigan back in 2005

A suspected serial killer has been accused of murdering a third woman - a pregnant 21-year-old from Michigan.

Harold David Haulman III, has been charged with first degree murder for the death of Ashley Parlier, who went missing from Battle Creek while she was pregnant in 2005.

Haulman, a 43-year-old married trucker, is already charged with the murders of his girlfriend Tianna Phillips, 25, and Erica Shultz, 26. His estranged wife turned him in after he sent her a signed confession in a bizarre attempt to save their marriage.

He was charged with the third murder after reportedly talking about Parlier's death during police interviews.   

Harold David Haulman III is accused of killing Ashley Parlier a pregnant 21-year-old who went missing from Battle Creek, Michigan 

'He indicated that he had assaulted her and knocked her unconscious' after an argument at a house, Sheriff Steve Hinkley said at a press conference Tuesday.

'He then drove her to a remote area in Newton Township, where he struck her in the head several times with a piece of wood until she was dead.' 

Parlier's sister, Nicole Campen, revealed that law enforcement had already provided their family with a copy of Haulman's indictment, which gave the family closure after 16 years of uncertainty.

'We got our indictment,' Campen told the Daily Item. 

'I was told this was coming and I will be at his (Haulman’s) trial and coming to Pennsylvania to attend Haulman’s hearings. My family is thrilled the detectives from Michigan and Pennsylvania built such a strong case and they all worked diligently. This was 16 years in the making and I wish my parents could be alive to hear this news,' she added. 

A former truck driver, Haulman has already been charged in two Pennsylvania murder cases, for Tianna Phillips, 25, who went missing in 2018, and Erica Shultz who went missing last year

Erica Shultz, 26, and Tianna Phillips were both murdered and police believe Haulman was their killer

Haulman has already been charged in two Pennsylvania murder cases, one for 25-year-old Phillips and Shultz.

Phillips, who Haulman was romantically involved with, disappeared in 2018. Shultz was killed in December. 

According to court documents obtained by WNEP-TV, Haulman used online dating apps to lure the women, where he would then take them to an isolated part of the woods in Butler Township and murder them, according to a Standard-Speaker report. 

After his May arrest for the suspicion of the Pennsylvania murders, Luzerne County Detective Shawn Williams interviewed Haulman, who began discussing the Parlier murder unprovoked, leading to the most recent charges. 

Parlier allegedly fell victim to serial killer Harold David Haulman III

'I am pleased that the Calhoun County Sheriff’s Department is able to bring homicide charges against Harold David Haulman III regarding their investigation,' Williams told the Daily Item on Monday. 

'I hope through our investigation and theirs, that the families of the victims can begin to heal during this difficult time. Unfortunately, these families have commonalities. My hope is that it brings them together.'

Much of the evidence that led to Haulman's arrest for the Pennsylvania murders and subsequent Michigan murder stems from a confession letter he had sent his estranged wife, Anne Haulman, while attempting to reconcile the marriage during the time of the killings. 

'On June 13th 2018 I drove to Berwick Pa and picked up Tiana Ann Phillips and took her for a drive. We ended up somewhere in the woods east of Berwick Pa. After walking into the woods I pulled a knive from my pocket and attacked her from behind cutting her throat,' Haulman wrote to Anne, who promptly provided the letter to authorities.

'As she gasped for her last breath of air I stabbed her repeatedly in the side of the neck, back and arms. I then returned to the crime scene months later and retrieved any and all evidence and disposed of it in a dumpster, not sure exactly where. I Harold David Haulman III committed this crime on my own and of my own free will, David Haulman.'

Police told the Daily Item that Haulman told his wife in 2018 that he killed Phillips and showed her pictures of a dead woman, but Anne told prosecutors that she didn't believe him. 

Then he forced her to go to the murder scene with him three months later, and he removed Phillips' skull, clothing and ribcage from the area, she told prosecutors. 

The couple separated during summer 2020, but Haulman tried to reconcile with her a few months later by sending greeting cards and the above confession letter. 

Two years later, Haulman's wife would once again help solve another one of her husband's murder cases, when she informed Pennsylvania police that Haulman had been in contact with Erica Shultz, who had gone missing and hadn't been seen since December 2020.

Haulman had also been convicted of murder in Germany back in the late 1990s, 'but the charges were reduced and he was released' from his overseas prison, according to the Daily Item.