Ex-Honors Student Guilty in ‘Fun’ Killings
Erika Elaine Sifrit, a onetime honors student and college basketball player, was found guilty of murdering two Ocean City tourists last year -- a crime prosecutors say she committed with her husband “for fun.”
The jury in Frederick deliberated just over four hours before pronouncing Sifrit, 25, guilty of first-degree murder for killing mortgage banker Joshua Ford, 32, and second-degree murder in the slaying of his girlfriend, insurance executive Martha Crutchley, 51, both of Fairfax, Va.
Her husband, former Navy SEAL Benjamin Sifrit, also 25, was acquitted of murdering Ford and was convicted of second-degree murder in Crutchley’s death.
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