NORFOLK, Va.-A hired gun paid to knock off a U.S. Navy officer by his wife, was found guilty of murdering the seaman as he pulled up to the ATM at Langley FCU in April 2007.
Ensign Cory Voss, stationed aboard the Norfolk-based frigate USS Elrod, was slain in what first appeared to be a robbery gone bad outside a credit union ATM. Voss, a father of two children, was asked by his wife to go to the ATM.
The sailor's body, riddled with gunshots, was found slumped over the driver's wheel of his pick-up the following day in the parking lot next to the credit union branch. Surveillance videos taken at the ATM show Voss trying to withdraw funds from his credit union account, which held only $5, as a gun-wielding assailant surfaced from behind the driver's seat.
Weeks later the wife, Catherina Voss, 33, confessed to hiring a hit man so she and her lover could reap the sailor's Navy death benefits and life insurance. The jury in the case is deliberating whether David Runyon, 38, of Morgantown, W.Va., who was convicted of the shooting, is eligible for the death penalty.
