Jun 6, 2009 4:45 pm US/Eastern
Missing Car In Staged Carjacking Found
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The car leased by a husband who was charged in Kent County with the murder of his wife has been found by police in Washington, DC.
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Maryland State Police release a mugshot of Ryan Holness who is charged in the murder of his wife, after alleging that the two were carjacked and that she was murdered by the carjacker.
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Maryland State Police release a mugshot of Ryan Holness who is charged in the murder of his wife, after alleging that the two were carjacked and that she was murdered by the carjacker.
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Police dog sniffs through land.
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Police gather information.
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Police are still working the scene.
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Police have part of the road closed off.
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State police are trying to make sense of a bizarre murder in Kent County in which a man claimed he and his wife were carjacked; he's since been charged with killing her.
Suzanne Collins explains there's another odd twist in this strange case.
The wife's body and her injured husband were found by state police in a rural part of Kent County on the Eastern Shore. Now police say their car, which he claimed was carjacked, has been located in Washington DC--but who drove it there?
It's a puzzle with a lot of pieces missing. Police say Serika Holness was murdered and her husband tried to blame it on a carjacker. Instead, Ryan Holness is now charged with the murder. The couple lives near the Patuxent Naval Air Station in southern Maryland; Holness is in the Navy.
"The medical examiner's office has completed his autopsy today and said that the cause and manner of death is homicide by multiple cutting and stab wounds," said Greg Shipley.
The husband told police Thursday morning after he called 911 from a rural Eastern Shore farmhouse that he and his wife were carjacked on the New Jersey Turnpike, bound and driven to Maryland cornfields. He told police when they were forced out of the car in Maryland, his wife tried to escape and the carjacker ran her down. Oddly, he had stab wounds when he came up to a farmhouse for help.
"He came and knocked on the door, said he had been robbed," said Robert Rolfe. "He had a big ol' gash on his arm, my father said."
There's also another big contradiction for police. They had been searching for the couple's Honda Accord, and late Friday night, it was found by an officer in Washington DC. This raises questions about how it got there.
"It's obviously possible another person was involved. That's one of the things investigators are considering, but they just don't know for certain where this dvelopment will lead," Shipley said.
Police say they did get more evidence from the car but won't say what it is. They say they must check lots of records, re-interview people and figure out how it all happened.
Holness was denied bond and is being held in the detention center in Kent County.
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