Welcome to Murder Minute.

On today's episode, The Carry Babies.

But first, your true crime headlines. Your True Crime Headlines A man already in prison for murder has been charged with murder in a 1989 cold case killing in Virginia.

55 year old Jose Rodriguez Cruz who was

imprisoned for killing a former girlfriend and federal worker in Washington a

decade ago pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Monday in In 1991 Rodriguez's remains were found along a highway median in Stafford County,

but they were unidentified until 2018 when DNA testing confirmed her identity.

In October of 2019, Jose Rodriguez Cruz was charged with killing Marta Haiti Rodriguez, then 28 years old.

According to authorities Jose Rodriguez Cruz said at the time that his wife had left the country

and that her remains weren't identified for years

because the sister of his second wife had assumed her identity.

Jose Rodriguez-Cruz is already serving a 12-year prison sentence for killing another woman,

47-year-old Pamela Butler, had her home in Washington in 2009.

He also dumped her body in Stafford.

Under his plea agreement, a first-degree murder charge was reduced and a charge of

concealing a dead body was dropped.

Jose Rodriguez Cruz could face an additional 40 years in prison.

His sentencing is scheduled for February 4th, 2021.

A Texas man has been sentenced to life in prison for his role in the slings of a Kansas couple who were

killed after a carnival worker ordered their deaths as part of a fictitious

carnival mafia. 37-year-old Rusty Frazier is one of several people charged in the July 2018 deaths of Alfred and Pauline

Carpenter, who were working as vendors at the Barton County, Kansas Fair.

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