Benjamin Sifrit, currently serving a 38-year sentence in the 2002 killing and dismemberment of a Virginia couple in Ocean City, has petitioned for a reduced sentence under Maryland’s Second Look Act, signed into law this year by Gov. Wes Moore.
Here’s a look at what happened in the original grisly case, what Sifrit said in his petition filed in late September, plus what Maryland’s Second Look Act says.
Ocean City killing, dismemberment of Virginia couple was in 2022
Sifrit was convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and accessory after the fact in the killing and dismemberment of Martha Gene Crutchley.
Benjamin Sifrit and his now ex-wife Erika Sifrit were suspects in the slayings of Crutchley and Joshua Ford, a couple visiting Ocean City from Fairfax, Virginia, for Memorial Day weekend in 2002…