NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The widow of a Navy sailor who was shot to death as he sought to make a withdrawal at the Langley FCU drive-thru last year was sentenced Friday to life in prison for having her husband killed.
Catherina Voss, 32, pleaded guilty in July to orchestrating the killing of Corey Voss, stationed aboard the Norfolk-based USS Elrod, for insurance money and to be free to be with her boyfriend, who prosecutors say also helped to arrange Voss' death.
After the killing, which occurred in the parking lot adjacent to the credit union, Voss attempted to create an alibi for herself by calling the police and area hospitals saying that her husband never came home.
She enlisted the help of her mother to look for him. She even wrote a letter to the now late Congresswoman Jo Ann Davis, saying police were wrongly holding up insurance money.
The guilty plea in July spared Catherina Voss the death penalty. Her boyfriend at the time of the shooting, Michael Draven -- whom Voss met a bar while her husband was at sea -- also faces the possibility of life in prison in the plot. He is set for trial in March.
Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against the alleged trigger man in the plot, David Runyon, a former Army soldier whom prosecutors said Draven met in Baltimore at a medical research experiment they were both taking part in.
Corey 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.
