Convicted Child Killer Charged With First-degree Murder After Being Released From Prison

A convicted child murderer who was released from jail in 2020 was charged Saturday with first-degree murder for the brutal killing of a woman found dead in a South Florida canal.

Eric Pierson, 54, allegedly killed 33-year-old Erika Verdecia, whose body was found stabbed four times with a screwdriver on Sept. 25, Sunrise police said. . .

In September 2020, Pierson was released from prison after carrying out 27 years of a 40-year sentence for the 1993 murder of Kristina Whitaker, 17.

Before that, in 1985, he was condemned to an 18-year sentence for attempted murder after breaking into a woman’s home and slitting her throat, but authorities said he was paroled.

Her daughter’s friends told Verdecia’s mother on social media that they had seen Verdecia with Pierson three days after she went missing, the mother said. (Read more from “Convicted Child Killer Charged With First-degree Murder After Being Released From Prison” HERE)

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