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Lexington Park man charged in wife's murder
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
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A Lexington Park man has been charged with first-degree murder in his wife's death, police report, after they found "inconsistencies" in his claim that the couple was abducted by a carjacker.
Ryan D. Holness, 28, was jailed Friday night in Kent County on the Eastern Shore, where police report he had shown up early that morning at a Crumpton residence and asked the occupant to call 911. Maryland State Police found the body of 26-year-old Serika Dunkley Holness, with apparent stab wounds in her upper body, lying in a field along a nearby highway.
Ryan Holness, a sailor assigned to Patuxent River Naval Air Station, told police that a masked gunman abducted him and his wife Thursday night at a travelers' service area in New Jersey, where the couple stopped while driving home from visiting relatives in New York.
Holness told police that the carjacker forced the couple to drive to Crumpton, ordered them out of the car early Friday morning, and assaulted the husband and bound him with duct tape before chasing, catching and assaulting the woman as she tried to run away.
Ryan Holness told police that he struggled through the early morning to free himself from the duct tape before he walked to the nearby house to get help.
He was treated at a hospital in Chestertown for an apparent knife wound and other cuts before he was released, and he was further questioned by police Friday evening before they charged him with the homicide.
State police report that Holness' leased 2007 Honda Accord, the subject of a nationwide lookout on Friday, was found shortly before midnight parked on a street in Washington, D.C. Police report that they have "no specific information" on how the car got there.
