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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.
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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.
A double murder case from 2004 is being heard in Virginia Beach Circuit Court this week.