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, 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.
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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