ChicagoAvenger
02-13-2009, 05:14 AM
Suspect In Local Slaying Sentenced To Die In Fla.
Man Charged In Elderly Covedale Woman's Death
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CINCINNATI - A man charged in the slaying of a Covedale woman was sentenced to die Thursday in Florida for another murder.
Willie Hodges was charged with rape murder in the March 2003 slaying of 81-year-old Laverne Jansen.
Police said Hodges followed Jansen from a liquor store on Glenway Avenue, where she had gone to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket, and killed her in her nearby apartment on Clevesdale Drive.
A judge in Pensacola sentenced Hodges to death by lethal injection in the murder of 58-year-old Patricia Bellanger.
Hodges has also been charged with murder in the November 2001 sexual assault and slaying of a 66-year-old woman in Sumter County, Ala.
Police used DNA evidence to link Hodges to Jansen’s slaying, which had gone unsolved for more than a year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29168971/
Man Charged In Elderly Covedale Woman's Death
http://images.ibsys.com/2009/0212//18702676_200X150.jpg
CINCINNATI - A man charged in the slaying of a Covedale woman was sentenced to die Thursday in Florida for another murder.
Willie Hodges was charged with rape murder in the March 2003 slaying of 81-year-old Laverne Jansen.
Police said Hodges followed Jansen from a liquor store on Glenway Avenue, where she had gone to buy a scratch-off lottery ticket, and killed her in her nearby apartment on Clevesdale Drive.
A judge in Pensacola sentenced Hodges to death by lethal injection in the murder of 58-year-old Patricia Bellanger.
Hodges has also been charged with murder in the November 2001 sexual assault and slaying of a 66-year-old woman in Sumter County, Ala.
Police used DNA evidence to link Hodges to Jansen’s slaying, which had gone unsolved for more than a year.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29168971/