NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The widow of a naval officer who was murdered while making a nighttime withdrawal at a Langley FCU ATM on Friday pleaded guilty to hiring two men to kill her husband.
Catherina Voss, 32, pleaded guilty to a five-count indictment, admitting her role in the for-hire murder of her husband, Cory Voss, whose bullet-riddled body was found in his pick-up truck in the parking lot next to the credit union branch on April 29, 2007.
Voss’ body was found slumped over the front seat of his truck in a secluded lot next door to the credit union, where surveillance video shows an armed man getting into the back seat, then Voss attempting several transactions at the ATM – all of them unsuccessful. The video then shows Voss driving away from the ATM, held at gunpoint.
Prosecutors charged that Voss’s wife was involved in an extramarital affair with one of the men she had kill her husband, 27-year-old Michael Draven. The lovers hired a second man, David Runyon, to kill the 30-year-old sailor in order to collect on his life insurance and Navy benefits.
The plea agreement calls for a sentence of life imprisonment for the widow.
Prosecutors last week said they plan to pursue the death penalty against Runyon, the 37-year-old shooter.
