A North Carolina woman received the death
penalty today for murdering a Westminster fortune teller and her
college-student daughter, whose heads and hands were covered in white paint.
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Tanya Jaime Nelson, 46, of Roanoke Rapids, NC, had been found guilty by a jury Feb. 16 of two felony counts of special
circumstances murder, the special circumstances being the murder of
multiple victims, murder by lying in wait and murder during the commission of robbery. She and an accomplice killed the pair and stole credit cards, expensive jewelry and other items.
The jury had recommended death for Nelson.
Her co-hort, Phillipe Zamora, 55, also of Roanoke Rapids, pleaded guilty April 14 to two felony counts of first degree
murder and was sentenced to 27 years to life in prison.
Zamora testified against Nelson.
The grisly slayings of Ha Smith, 52, and Anita Vo, 23, are detailed here and here.
The Orange County District Attorney's Office released a statement today that includes the a recounting of what Smith's older sister, and Vo's aunt, told the court at sentencing.
“No amount of time will ever
heal the pain nor erase the memory of the ingrained and horrific images,
nor the silence the gut-wrenching testimony that has been exhibited and
addressed in this court,” she said. “Justice has been served.”
OC Weekly Editor-in-Chief Matt Coker has been engaging, enraging and entertaining readers of newspapers, magazines and websites for decades. He spent the first 13 years of his career in journalism at daily newspapers before “graduating” to OC Weekly in 1995 as the alternative newsweekly’s first calendar editor.
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