GUILTY CA - Mary Marino-Starkey, 46, Manteca, 15 June 2005

[Bobbisangel]

This is wonderful news. I wonder what led LE to that exact place. I also wonder if the wife is going to be charged. They should charge her as she knew what he had done and saw Mary's body. That is just sickening. What kind of a woman is she anyway that she would just take her children and leave so he could "clean up the body.?" I guess that is a dumb question...what kind of a woman stays with or even marries a person like that! Doesn't say much for her. I do hope they charge her too.

 

[chicoliving]

Roy Smith, the suspect in the murder of Mary Starkey, pleaded guilty this afternoon in a deal that will let him avoid the death penalty.

Smith was arrested in the summer of 2005, just a couple of weeks after the Ripon woman disappeared.

On Wednesday, a CAL FIRE crew found Starkey's remains in Amador County.

She disappeared in June 2005 while meeting a man over the possible sale of her boat.

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=30371

 

[chicoliving]

Roy Smith, the suspect in the murder of Mary Starkey, pleaded guilty this afternoon in a deal that will let him avoid the death penalty.

Smith was arrested in the summer of 2005, just a couple of weeks after the Ripon woman disappeared.

On Wednesday, a CAL FIRE crew found Starkey's remains in Amador County.

She disappeared in June 2005 while meeting a man over the possible sale of her boat.

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=30371

 

[chicoliving]

Roy Smith, the suspect in the murder of Mary Starkey, pleaded guilty this afternoon in a deal that will let him avoid the death penalty.

Smith was arrested in the summer of 2005, just a couple of weeks after the Ripon woman disappeared.

On Wednesday, a CAL FIRE crew found Starkey's remains in Amador County.

She disappeared in June 2005 while meeting a man over the possible sale of her boat.

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=30371

 

[CaliKid]

Roy Smith, the suspect in the murder of Mary Starkey, pleaded guilty this afternoon in a deal that will let him avoid the death penalty.

Smith was arrested in the summer of 2005, just a couple of weeks after the Ripon woman disappeared.

On Wednesday, a CAL FIRE crew found Starkey's remains in Amador County.

She disappeared in June 2005 while meeting a man over the possible sale of her boat.

http://www.news10.net/display_story.aspx?storyid=30371

I'm glad she was located. While it doesn't help her loved ones much, at least they have some answers. Even the painful ones must be better than not knowing at all.

 

[SewingDeb]

(CBS13) The bones found last week in Amador County are the bones of murder victim Mary Starkey. News of the identification came on the same day the Stockton man accused of killing Starkey plead guilty.

Roy Gerald Smith entered a guilty plea in the murder of Starkey Monday. This on the same day Starkey’s remains were positively identified through dental records.

and

Investigators say the very same day Roy Smith told them where the body was, they formed a search party to comb the rural area in Amador County. They say it wasn’t the tip that found the remains. The DA’s office says a fire crew battling a blaze started by lightning, stumbled upon a human skeleton wrapped in a blanket. Around the same time, the search party was just a few miles away.

Investigators believe Smith murdered Starkey the day she went missing, June 15, 2005, then dumped her body the following day.


http://cbs13.com/local/local_story_197233359.html

 

[OkieGranny]

To wrap up, from July 2007:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_6394122?source=rss

Roy Gerald Smith, 45, pleaded guilty to killing Mary Marino-Starkey, 46, by means of lying in wait June 15, 2005. He was immediately sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

Prosecutors agreed to take the death penalty off the table if Smith revealed where Starkey's body was located.