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Autopsy Shows Missing Greensboro Woman Was Strangled
POSTED: 8:47 am EDT August 20,
2008
UPDATED: 9:07 am EDT August 20,
2008
GREENSBORO -- A prosecutor said an autopsy reveals a Greensboro woman who had been missing since 2006 was apparently strangled. The body of 27-year-old Sherri Jackson was found June 26 in a grave behind a house off Pine Meadow Court. DeCarlo Rayshaun Bennett pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on June 26. Bennett told police where Jackson's body was as part of a plea deal.
He had been charged with first-degree murder. Assistant District Attorney Howard Neumann had waited for the final autopsy before scheduling Bennett's sentencing.Neumann said he expects the sentencing hearing to be scheduled within a month.Bennett faces a maximum sentence of 16 years in prison.Jackson disappeared Nov. 29, 2006.
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