Daily News | Philadelphia man admits to killing six in murder-for-hire conspiracy
A 42-year-old Philadelphia man who confessed to slaying six people for money and trying to kill a seventh now faces mandatory life in prison after pleading guilty in a federal case related to his murder-for-hire spree, U.S. Attorney Jacqueline C. Romero announced Wednesday.
“We’ve long known that much of Philadelphia’s violent crime is committed by a discrete group of chronic offenders,” Jacqueline Maguire, special agent in charge of the FBI’s Philadelphia Division, said in a statement Wednesday. “Ernest Pressley is a case in point. Today, he’s admitted to murdering six people and trying to kill a seventh.”
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