A Coast Guard veteran turned OnlyFans model has pled guilty on Tuesday to murdering a man who she alleged raped her four years before she executed him off an isolated hiking trail in an Ohio national park.
Chelsea Perkins, 35, traveled more than 300 miles from Virginia to Ohio in an arranged meet-up with Matthew Dunmire at the Cuyahoga Valley National Park on March 6, 2021, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
While in the park, they began hiking off-trail into a wooded area where Perkins took out a handgun she had been concealing and fatally shot Dunmire, 31, in the back of the head, prosecutors said.
Hikers discovered his body three days later.
Prosecutors said FBI investigators used GPS data, DNA, social media, phone records, and ballistics analysis at the crime scene to link Perkins to the murder.
According to a criminal complaint, Dunmire went out drinking with a co-worker four days before he was murdered and told them he was meeting up with a girl who was staying in the area for the weekend.
Dunmire’s co-worker saw a woman with brown hair pick him up in a white smart car, which investigators later discovered was registered in Virginia and belonged to Perkins’ husband.
Witnesses also later told investigators they saw a woman matching Perkins’ description on the park trail on the day of the murder. Hikers in the park also reported hearing a gunshot between 11:30 a.m. and 11:50 a.m., according to documents.
It took the FBI nearly nine months from when she killed Dunmire to arrest her.
Authorities discovered three 9mm pistols, one of which had bullets with “similar characteristics” found inside Dunmire’s head, while searching Perkins’ Alexandria, Va, home, documents show.
Dunmire was an aspiring musician who grew up in Virginia before he moved to Cleveland.
Court documents show that Perkins and Dunmire knew each other before the killing and were in high school together from 2005 to 2009.
In 2017, Perkins filed a report with Virginia Beach police alleging that Dunmire had raped her but didn’t have enough evidence to file charges against him.
Perkins then had a brief stint in the Coast Guard, where she met her husband, according to court documents.
She left the service and went on to become an OnlyFans model under the name Sabrina Savage, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.
Perkins pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence on federal property — a week before she was set to stand trial.
Following Dunmire’s murder in March, Perkins was suspected of killing but had still not been arrested.
In November 2021, Dunmire’s mother, Tommie Lynn Dunmire, and father, John Nelson McQuillen, drove to Washington, DC, intending to kill Perkins, according to the US Attorney’s Office.
Dunmire’s mother, dressed as a UPS driver, knocked on an apartment door and shot a woman she mistakenly thought was Perkins twice in the abdomen.
The mother and father fled the scene, changing the license plates on their vehicle to avoid being caught, but were tracked down by police.
Tommie Lynn Dunmire shot and killed herself after being pulled over in Florida.
The woman she shot by mistake survived her injuries.
Federal agents arrested McQuillen, who later pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact to assault with intent to kill and was sentenced to three years in prison.
Following her plea deal Tuesday, Perkins faces between 20 and 25 years in prison.
She is set to face sentencing on Sept. 9.
