Wife gets Life in Navy Hubby's Murder

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Wife gets Life in Navy Hubby's Murder
November 17, 2008
Daily Press, Newport News, Va.

The Newport News woman who hired a hit man to kill her Navy Sailor husband has been sentenced to four life terms plus 20 years, with a judge imposing the terms of a plea agreement that spared her from getting the death penalty.

Catherina Rose Voss, 33, pleaded guilty in July to orchestrating the April 2007 killing of Cory Allen Voss, 30, a communications officer stationed aboard the USS Elrod, a Norfolk-based frigate.

The Sailor was shot dead outside a Langley Federal Credit Union branch in Oyster Point after his wife asked him to go there late one Sunday night to withdraw money from an ATM. Unbeknownst to Cory Voss, a hired killer was waiting for him, jumping into his truck as he attempted to get money. He was shot five times.

"She sent Cory Voss to his death," Assistant U.S. Attorney Lisa R. McKeel said at the sentencing hearing on Nov. 14. "Many times she could have stopped this, and many times she didn't."

Catherina Voss' motive was twofold, prosecutors said: She wanted to be with her boyfriend, Michael Draven, 28 -- who prosecutors said also arranged the slaying. She also wanted $400,000 from a life insurance policy in her husband's name.


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[Lerkfish]

1. Not that I'm defending this person, but WTF?

sentencing in this country is whacko. There was the guy that brutally raped and hacked off the arms of his victim, leaving her to die, and he was out of prison in less than 20 years to kill again.

If you're african american or I guess a woman, you do much harder time. That's just whack.