GERMANTOWN, Md. (WJZ) — Montgomery County Officials announced Monday greeting that Lawrence Sakkestad pleaded blameworthy to first-degree execution successful the 2019 decease of Jennifer Sparks.
According to tribunal documents, Sakkestad admitted to bludgeoning Sparks to decease with a tube wrench and slitting her throat.
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Police responded connected September 9, 2019 to 20037 Dunstable Circle, Germantown, wherever they recovered Sakkestad wholly bare and covered successful blood. They recovered Sparks’ assemblage successful a bath with a spread successful her forehead and her pharynx slit. She was pronounced dormant connected the scene.
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The 911 caller was Sparks’ friend, who recovered her body. The person near Sparks and Sakkestad unsocial successful Sparks’ apartment, wherever they reportedly consumed drugs and were intimate. When she returned, Sparks was dead.
Sakkestad admitted that Sparks did thing to instigate the onslaught and that voices successful his caput told him to bash it.
He is acceptable to beryllium sentenced connected August 27 and pursuant to a plea agreement, Sakkestad volition service a beingness sentence.