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Richard Stoner, 48, told cold case investigators he was hired in 2004 to kill a Virginia Beach woman by her ex-husband. He said he ended up killing the woman's son, too, to spare the boy the trauma of having seen his mother murdered.

Richard Stoner told the detectives he’d been hired by the womans ex-husband to kill her and ended up also killing the boy to spare him the trauma of having seen

Richard Stoner told the detectives he’d been hired by the womans ex-husband to kill her and ended up also killing the boy to spare him the trauma of having seen

Richard Stoner, 47, pleaded guilty to killing Lois Schmidt, 29, and Jonathan Vetrano, 7, at their home in June 2004. Stoner told cold case detectives he was hired by Lois Schmidt's husband to kill her.