USA: Man pleads guilty to 1991 murder

A man pleaded guilty to murder of a woman whom he met in a bar in Florida (USA), a crime committed in 1991 and that since then constituted an unsolved case, as reported this Wednesday local media.

At a hearing Tuesday in a Volusia County courthouse in the center of the state, Michael Townson53, already serving a sentence for another homicide, pleaded guilty to the charge of murder in the first degree for the death of Linda Lois Little, who was reported missing on October 14, 1991.

Townson was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole following 25 years in prison.

The sentence is given following Townson confessed to the crime Policemanto whom he testified that he met Little at a Daytona Beach nightclub and, when they were in his car, he beat and choked her to death.

Subsequently, and according to his testimony, Townson He drove northbound on an interstate highway and when he reached the state of Georgia left the body behind a dumpster in a rural area.

body never found

According to the State Attorney’s Office, Little’s body was never found and a recent review of unidentified bodies in the custody of Camden County authorities in Georgiadid not show “a match” regarding Little.

“However, the defendant was shown a photograph of Little and confirmed, ‘without a doubt’, that she was the woman he had murdered in 1991,” the Prosecutor’s Office said in a statement, adding that other details of Townson’s testimony coincide with the chronology of the case and proven facts.

The sentenced man is already serving a life sentence for the 2007 murder of Sherri Carmanto, whom he beat to death with a steel pipe at the victim’s home in Titusville, south of Daytona Beach.

EFE