After 25 years in prison, Justin Wolfe to be released in Prince William County murder-for-hire case

Justin Michael Wolfe will be released from custody as soon as tonight after serving 25 years in prison, including 13 on death row, for a 2001 murder-for-hire scheme in Prince William County he always denied.

“We’re waiting on the paperwork now to let him go,” Wolfe’s mother, Terri Steinberg, told InsideNoVa Monday evening.

In 2002, Wolfe was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in the March 2001 murder of Daniel Petrole Jr. of Bristow. Past prosecutors said Wolfe, then a 19-year-old marijuana dealer from Fairfax, hired a hitman to kill Petrole, his supplier, because Wolfe owed Petrole $60,000…

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