Authorities in South Florida have charged a convicted murderer who was released from prison last year with the slaying of a woman whose body was found in a canal after being missing for three weeks.
This undated photo provided by the Florida Department of Corrections shows Eric Pierson. On Saturday, Oct. 16, 2021, police charged Pierson, a convicted murderer, with the slaying of a South Florida woman whose body was found in a canal after being missing for three weeks.
Pierson had been released from prison in September 2020 after serving 27 years of a 40-year sentence for the 1993 beating and strangulation murder of 17-year-old Kristina Whitaker, whose death helped galvanize a push for longer prison sentences. He had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder. Verdecia's mother told the South Florida SunSentinel she doesn't understand why Pierson was free to attack her daughter. Erika Verdecia leaves behind a 6-year-old daughter.
Carmen Verdecia searched his name on the internet and was horrified to see newspaper stories about his earlier murder and attack.
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