Supreme Court won’t stop execution of Va. woman
The U.S. Supreme Court refused Tuesday to block the execution of a woman convicted of two hired killings, clearing the way for the state’s first execution of a woman in nearly a century.
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Teresa Lewis, 41, is scheduled to die by injection Thursday night for providing sex and money to two men to kill her husband and stepson in October 2002 so she could collect on a quarter-million-dollar insurance payout.
Prieto linked to two more murders
DNA evidence has linked a man already convicted of two murders in Fairfax County to two more killings in California committed 20 years ago.
Alfredo Prieto, has now been linked to six killings and four rapes in Virginia and California between 1988 and 1990. Prieto was already on death row in California but was extradited to Virginia to stand trial in 2006 for the murder of Rachael A. Raver, and her boyfriend, Warren H. Fulton III, both 22, in Reston in 1988. He was found guilty of the couple’s murder, but a sentencing has not been set.
Man indicted in sex trafficking
A Glen Burnie man has been indicted on a charge of sex trafficking of a minor.
Derwin Smith, 42, recruited the 12-year-old girl to work as a prostitute and oversee the other prostitutes after promising her a “luxury” home. Smith asserted his control over the girl by forcing the girl to have sex with him and threatening her with a gun, federal prosecutors said.
Smith was arrested in June after the 12-year-old was found at a Laurel motel. Police said Smith originally met the girl in a D.C. area known for prostitution.
Smith faces a maximum sentence of life in prison for sex trafficking of a minor, prosecutors said.
Hopkins shooter home searched
Police on Tuesday searched the Arlington home of the man accused of shooting a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospital before killing his mother and himself.
Baltimore police said search warrants were executed at the home of Paul Warren Pardus to look for any information about whether Pardus planned last week’s attack. Pardus lived on South Kenmore Street, just off Glebe Road.
Pardus’ mother had recently moved into his tiny home in Arlington. Pardus blamed the doctor for paralyzing his mother during surgery.
— Compiled by Scott McCabe
