A former Marine has been indicted in the 2009 death of a Navy sailor who was found slain in her Henderson Hall barracks at Fort Myers.
Jorge A. Torrez is charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of Amanda J. Snell, according to federal prosecutors in Alexandria. Snell was a 20-year-old petty officer at the time of her death.
She was found dead in her room on July 13, 2009.
The charge against Torrez makes him eligible for the death penalty, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said, but it wasn’t immediately clear whether prosecutors would seek that penalty.
The Washington Examiner first reported in March that Torrez was suspected in Snell’s death.
Torrez, who also goes by George, was convicted in Arlington County in October of abducting and raping one woman and robbing another in separate attacks. Those assaults took place while he was stationed at Henderson Hall.
He is also linked through DNA evidence to the May 2005 slayings of two young girls in Zion, Ill., where he used to live. One girl’s father spent five years in jail before charges were dropped when the DNA match to Torrez came to light through a national database last summer. Torrez has not been charged in Illinois.
