CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Even after telling police detectives that he had killed two women, Michael Madison struggled to remember what he did with the bodies.

Parts of over 10 hours of interrogation interviews, played for a jury Monday, showed the accused serial killer struggle to piece together the events that happened in the days and weeks before police discovered three decomposing bodies in a garage and near his East Cleveland apartment.

The accused killer faces the death penalty if convicted.

Madison told detectives that he couldn't recall killing more than one girl. He told detectives that he remembered a time he choked at least one woman, 18-year-old Shirellda Terry whose body was eventually discovered after a cable worker complained about the smell and flies coming from a garage next to Madison's apartment.

He later said he remembered choking another girl, 28-year-old Shetisha Sheeley, in October 2012. After that he told detectives that he found one girl's body in a closet in his apartment when it started to smell bad, prompting him to move it outside.

"I have never felt such heavy trash," Madison said at one point during interrogations, according to Prosecuting Attorney Anna Faraglia.

Madison is accused in the death of a third woman, 38-year-old Angela Deskins, who disappeared in late May or early June 2013, and was found inside a vacant home in the block where Madison lived.

All three women's bodies were found in trash bags, disposed of in a similar manner.

The interrogation take showed Madison spending hours talking to police detectives about his troubled relationship with his mother and his ex-girlfriend with whom he fathered children. He moved from school to school as a child and said he had dropped out in the ninth grade.

He told police that he had developed an alcohol addiction, drinking an increasing amount on a daily basis over a period of over a year leading up to the discovery of the girls' bodies.

The jury spent part of three days of testimony viewing photographs presented by the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's office, showing how Madison bound the women's bodies together, folding them at the waist before putting them inside trash bags.

Medical examiners testified that two women, Deskins and Terry, had been strangled with what are believed to be belts. Sheeley had suffered severe bruises on her face.

The jury has not yet seen the full interrogation. Prosecutors expect testimony and evidence to be presented through at least Friday before the state rests its case.