A Georgia woman serving a life sentence for killing his wife has also been convicted of murdering his ex-girlfriend more than a decade ago.
Joyce Marie Pelzer, 47, was convicted last Friday of the 2011 kidnapping and murder of her ex Shawndell McLeod, the DeKalb County district attorney said in a statement.
She was aided in the murder by his wife Rosalyn Lewis, whom Pelzer then stabbed to death in December 2018, leading to the life sentence she is already serving.
Following the latest conviction, the inmate was immediately sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Lewis had helped Pelzer kidnap and kill McLeod, who was reported missing by her mother on September 25, 2011, shortly after ending an abusive relationship with her mother.
A few days later, police found McLeod’s vehicle in southeast Atlanta with a tarp and a spare tire in the back seat.
Although authorities interviewed Pelzer at the time of McLeod’s initial disappearance, the case remained cold for more than seven years until authorities contacted Pelzer’s last girlfriend in August 2018, the district attorney said.
Joyce Marie Pelzer, 47, is currently serving two life sentences. Georgia Department of Corrections Rosalyn Lewis was stabbed more than 30 times and later died in December 2018. The Roz Renee Foundation
The girlfriend, who was not named in the statement, told police that Pelzer admitted to killing McLeod after plotting to do so for more than two or three months, the statement explained.
Lewis allegedly helped Pelzer by hiring a hitman to help kidnap McLeod when she arrived at work.
The couple and the hitman then allegedly held McLeod captive for a few days while “they dug a hole for her body,” the statement said, which did not detail exactly how they killed her.
The same “last girlfriend” who helped open the McLeod case later told police in December 2018 that Pelzer planned to kill Lewis, who had filed for divorce.
Just a few days later, officers responded to a motel in Conyers where they found Lewis “suffering from more than 30 stab wounds,” the district attorney’s statement explained.
Shawndell McLeod was reported missing by her mother on September 25, 2011.
Lewis died from her injuries and Pelzer was arrested in a dramatic standoff with Georgia State Patrol troopers, who shot the suspect when she pointed a gun at them.
In an interview with police, Pelzer later claimed that Lewis was the one who orchestrated McLeod’s murder.
She told investigators that her ex was buried at Arabia Mountain, but his remains have never been found, the district attorney said.
Pelzer pleaded guilty to charges related to Lewis’ death in January 2021. The DeKalb County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment Friday.
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