article_snippet.sent: David Adam Pate, 25, (mugshot from 2013 left and in court on Thursday right) from Lancaster
article_snippet.sent: According to The Charlotte Observer, police found at least 20 knives, both store bought and homemade, and more than 20 masks in Pate's home after Pate was arrested, when children who were playing in the woodland found the victim's decomposing body.
article_snippet.sent: Pate was already in jail at the time, having been arrested for disorderly conduct two weeks before.
article_snippet.sent: As Pate was booked into custody, officers took a frightening mugshot of Pate.
article_snippet.sent: Pate stuck out Pate split tongue and revealed a 974 tattoo on Pate neck - the sign of the white power gang, Gangster Disciples.
article_snippet.sent: During a police interview, Pate described how Pate covered James's remains up because Pate wanted to kill someone in the same place.
article_snippet.sent: Pate said Pate tied James with a rope from neck to ankles so that James could drag the body away after the stabbing site, but was too drunk and tired to continue to try and drag James's body to a nearby creek.