DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – A grand jury indicted a Florida man Tuesday on the murder of a pregnant Daytona Beach woman in 2015.
Shaquierra Pinckney, 22, was found naked and burned in a private cemetery in Putnam County in September 2015.
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The Putnam County Sheriff’s Office said Lorenzo Benjamin Hudson was indicted on four charges, including felony capital murder, and felony capital murder of an unborn child.
While the sheriff would not go into details about the case, including the motive for the crime or how they determined it was him, he did say his detectives believed Pinckney met Hudson on a popular adult website. The suspect then left Pinckney’s Honda Accord in neighboring St. Johns County, where it was found days after her disappearance.
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Pinckney was four months pregnant and had two daughters when she died.
“The case went cold, but I’m so proud of the work done not only by our detectives, but also the State Attorney’s Office in securing this indictment that came out yesterday afternoon,” said Sheriff HD “Gator” DeLoach III. “We never gave up.”
At the time of his arrest, Hudson was serving a five-year sentence for a string of burglary and grand theft charges and was due to be released later this year, DeLoach said.
Instead, he’ll be extradited to Putnam County. Prosecutors still have to decide whether they will seek the death penalty.
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