A Travis County judge said she will allow some incriminating statements an accused mass murderer allegedly made to friends and family.

Prosecutors say the statements from Paul Devoe paint a timeline and show the big picture of a crime spree he's accused of going on last August.

"He's talked to many, many people and he's the one initiating these contacts. As we said before, he's very loquacious. He wants to talk to anybody who will listen, even those who don’t want to listen. I think it's very rare that someone would talk to that extent," said assistant Travis County District Attorney Gary Cobb.

In Friday's pretrial hearing the prosecution called one witness to the stand. That was Alton Parker, an acquaintance of Paul Devoe's who accepted his collect call from a New York prison last summer.

Parker said he wanted to take the call because he wanted to ask Devoe if he killed a 6th person during his alleged spree, an elderly woman in Pennsylvania.

"He said, ‘I can't believe I did it.’ And at that point I asked him about the lady in Pennsylvania, did he know that lady? Because I knew he had contact with the others and he said he did not, he was merely driving along and needed to change cars, and I said why did you shoot her? And his next words were she would not stop screaming," said Parker.

Devoe's attorneys are not commenting on the case.

Jury selection is scheduled to begin in mid-September.