Friday, October 19, 2007

Murderer of student faces 29 years in prison

In 2004, a pharmacy student at Palm Beach Atlantic University was murdered. After three years, Joshua Reid, now 26, receives a 29-year sentence, and Melissa Ringer, 26, receives a 17-year sentence.

According to authorities, Reid and Ringer, then 19, were running from authorities after a convenience store robbery, and had a plan to kill Bin Zhao, 33. So how did they commit the crime?

Ringer was working as a prostitute and pulled Zhao, who was a regular, to a Boca town home where Reid struck Zhao with a pool stick and strangled him with a lamp chord. Both Reid and Ringer, wrapped the body and placed it in Zhao's trunk.

The couple was caught after trying to use Zhao's credit card in a Target.

For the complete story, http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-flpreid1019pnoct19,0,4242874.story

Every other day i get a new e-mail advising me of a new alert about an incident that happened at school, or see a breaking story on the news about students being victimized.

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