MARTINSBURG, W.Va. — A Maryland man has pleaded guilty to his role in a 2020 multi-state violent crime spree that led to three deaths.
Following a lengthy investigation, Monroe Merrell, 29, of Westminster, Maryland, entered a guilty plea Tuesday to three charges. As part of the plea, he admitted he worked with others to kidnap and murder a man in a Maryland apartment in March 2020.
Merrell and others brought the victim into West Virginia and disposed his body in the woods in Rippon, a rural area of Jefferson County. The body was doused with gasoline and burnt.
U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia Matt Harvey said on WEPM Wednesday that the murder emanated from dispute over drug money…