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A Virginia Beach, Virginia cold case came to a close Monday after a man who pleaded guilty to a 2004 double homicide for the second time was sentenced to four life sentences.
Richard Stoner, the man who pleaded guilty twice to the 2004 murders of a 29-year-old and her seven-year-old son, was sentenced on Monday.
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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 woman's 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 woman's ex-husband to kill her and ended up also killing the boy to spare him the trauma of having seen