Monday, November 17, 2014
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Relatives and friends are pleading for jurors to spare the life of a man convicted in the murder and dismemberment of a woman whose remains were found along a pair of eastern Pennsylvania interstates six years ago.
Forty-year-old Charles Ray Hicks was convicted last week of first-degree murder in Monroe County in the January 2008 murder of 36-year-old Deanna Null.
Null’s remains were found in trash bags at eight locations along Interstates 80 and 380 in the Stroudsburg area, about 70 miles north of Philadelphia. Police said her severed hands were found hidden in the walls of Hicks’ home.
The Pocono Record reports that the defense today described Hicks as “a good man who did a bad thing.” Witnesses blamed drug use for his decline.