UPDATED: Former Delmar Man Sentenced to Life Plus 73 Years for Murder
UPDATED – 4/10/23 – A former Delmar man has been sentenced for murder and other offenses. Last October, 45 year old Kenneth Evans was convicted of 1st degree murder, 1st degree rape, home invasion and other offenses. He was also determined to be a sexually violent predator. Monday morning, First Judicial Circuit Judge S. James Sarbanes, sentenced Evans to the maximum allowable sentence of life without the possibility of parole plus 73 years.
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October 29, 2022 – A former Delmar man has been convicted by a jury of 1st degree murder, 1st degree rape and multiple other offenses – sentencing was deferred pending completion of a pre-sentence investigation.
Officials say early in the morning of May 21st of 2021, Kenneth Evans went to a home on Glastonbury Drive in Salisbury where he entered the home of Helen Riggins where over multiple hours he offended her for hours. Riggins was bound, strangled, raped and murdered. When Evans left he doused Riggins and the home in gasoline and set if on fire.
Evans remains in custody pending sentencing.
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