HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted of killing three women in Kansas pleaded guilty Thursday to five more murders in Missouri, where some of the victims' bodies were found stuffed into barrels in a rented storage locker.

John E. Robinson Sr., 59, avoided trial and a death sentence in Missouri by admitting that he killed the two women and teenage girl whose bodies were found in the storage locker and two other women whose bodies were never found.

Last fall, Robinson was sentenced to death in Kansas for two murders there and given a life sentence for a third.

In his guilty plea Thursday in Missouri, Robinson admitted that he killed Beverly Bonner, 49, of Cameron, Mo., and Sheila Faith, 45, and her paraplegic daughter, Debbie, 16, both formerly of California.

Their bodies were discovered in 55-gallon drums in a storage locker in Raymore on June 5, 2000 -- two days after authorities dug up two larger barrels containing women's bodies on rural property Robinson owned just over the state line in Linn County, Kan.

Robinson also admitted killing Paula Godfrey, of Olathe, who disappeared in 1984 when she was 19, and Catherine Clampitt, who had moved from Texas to Kansas and was working for Robinson when she disappeared at age 27. She was last seen by her family in 1987.

No charges had ever been filed in the disappearances of Godfrey and Clampitt.

Authorities in both states have said that Robinson -- whose criminal record of theft, embezzlement and other offenses dates to 1969 -- lured some of his victims to northeastern Kansas with promises of work or sadomasochistic sex. He lived in the Kansas City suburb of Olathe, Kan.