By LYNNE TUOHY
Last modified: Thursday, March 06, 2014
NORTH HAVERHILL, N.H. A man convicted of killing two women in Massachusetts pleaded guilty Friday to stabbing a 30-year-old New Hampshire woman to death in 1991. Craig Conkey pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in Grafton County Superior Court and was sentenced to life without the chance of parole.
Conkey said he killed Theresa “Tess” Reed, 30, in her apartment near the Plymouth State College campus just a week after the fall semester started. Reed was an associate registrar at the college.
Her parents were in the courtroom Friday.
When Judge Peter Bornstein asked at the outset of the hearing if Conkey intended to plead guilty, Conkey replied in a high-pitched voice: “Why don’t we just get it over with and plead to first-degree murder?”