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| Inmate's guilty conscience ends mystery of '76 killing |
| By The Columbus Dispatch |
| Published: 04/14/2006 |
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A Florida prisoner's remorse has answered a family's prayers for closure in the death of a teen 30 years ago. Raymond S. Norman, an AWOL Marine with a hot yellow Pontiac GTO, was 19 when he picked up Sheryl Ann Encarnanze on March 25, 1976. He was drunk and high and wanted to party. She was a 17-year-old trying to make it home late at night who accepted his offer of a ride on W. Broad Street. She never made it home. Her body was found the next day in Big Run Park on the West Side. She had been run over. Norman said her death was an accident. He kept his secret for nearly three decades. This week, he returned to Columbus from a Florida prison, and yesterday he made good on a promise to Columbus police and Franklin County prosecutors by pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter in the death of the Westland High School junior. Assistant County Prosecutor James Lowe said Norman admitted to "helping" the girl leave his car after a fight. "He dropped it in reverse and struck Miss Encarnanze," Lowe said. "Then he put it in drive and drove over her again." Prosecutor Ron O'Brien received a letter from Norman in July through the Ohio attorney general's office. Two veteran homicide detectives, Dave Morris and Dennis Graul, went to Florida to interview Norman, and he admitted his role in the death. |
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