Teen Pleads Guilty to Strangling Boy
From Times Wire Reports
A teenager pleaded guilty to strangling an 11-year-old neighbor who came to his door selling gift wrap and candy for the PTA. Sam Manzie, 17, appeared calm as he described in a Toms River, N.J., court how he choked Eddie Werner with a cord from an alarm clock for 40 minutes, stuffed his body into a suitcase and dragged it into the woods. Eddie, who was in sixth grade, was hoping to win a walkie-talkie set by selling the most items. The killing was in 1997. Manzie faces 30 years to life in prison at sentencing April 14.