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Sentencing Rescheduled For Molino Murder Suspect
December 2, 2014
Sentencing had been set for Monday for a woman that pleaded in a Molino murder case, but now she won’t learn her fate for several more weeks.
Debra Burge, 24, pleaded no contest in September to a lesser charge of second degree murder charge in the death of 43-year old Harvey Ray Smith of Pace. His body was found stuffed into a vehicle trunk behind a Motel 6 on Davis Highway on the morning of May4, 2013. Smith had been reported missing in Santa Rosa County. Family members located his vehicle at the motel and then discovered the body.
Burge will now be sentence in late January.
Her co-defendant, 24-year old Zachary Greer is awaiting trial for first degree murder with his next court appearance scheduled for late December.
Reports state Burge and Greer conspired to rob Smith. Burge allegedly lured Smith, her acquaintance, to her home in the 3900 block of Highway 97 in Molino. She told deputies she went inside while Smith and Greer remained outside. When she later exited the home, she found Smith on the ground of the Molino home bleeding. She told Sheriff’s investigators that Greer told her he stabbed Smith and put his body in the trunk of the car that was later driven to the Motel 6 on Davis Highway in Pensacola.
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3 Responses to “Sentencing Rescheduled For Molino Murder Suspect”
I would hope they could both receive a DEATH SENTENCE, but we know that will not happen with plea bargains.
She may not have been the person who plunged a knife into Mr. Smith, bet she lured him with false pretenses while Mr. Greer murdered him. What else would the outcome be if they intended to rob Mr. Smith other than murder him. He was a witness and soulless cowards take the easy way out . The needle is out on second degree but life without is still there, now here kids get to grow up without a mom.
I only hope they spend the rest of their life in prison and that they know that they killed a good guy Ray didn’t deserve what they did to him. I knew Ray personally he had a big heart he would of helped anyone!
And because of them his daughter has to grow up without a dad. So I say throw the f’in book at them they don’t deserve any kind of mercy. My heart and goes out to Rays little girl and her mother.