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Cedar Rapids Soldier Admits to Affair, Brutal Murder
John McGlothlen
Sep. 4, 2009 3:54 pm
A Cedar Rapids soldier will spend 30 years at Fort Leavenworth prison for brutally murdering the wife of another soldier deployed to Iraq. Specialist Jermaine Johnson, 27 ...
Additional details from St. Louis Post-Dispatch: 'Medic on trial in brutal slaying on Army post'
After a night of drinking and sex, he beat (Myria Silva) repeatedly, left her naked in a roadside ditch, then returned to slash her throat. He stuffed her body in a sleeping bag, then dumped it in the backyard shed of a remote, abandoned farmhouse, prosecutors say. ...
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