A New England man convicted of his wife’s 1995 murder five years ago has now been found guilty of murdering his teenage daughter.
On Wednesday, a jury in Connecticut found Robert Honsch guilty for the 1995 murder of his 17-year-old daughter, Elizabeth Honsch, according to New Britain State’s Attorney Brian W. Preleski. Elizabeth was found shot to death in a New Britain parking lot, but it would take years for authorities to identify her body.
Robert Honsch is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on June 15, 2022.
He was accused of pressing a gun barrel to the heads of both women and pulling the trigger.
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"The killer, the police learned after scouring the country for clues, was Elizabeth’s father, Robert Honsch, who would also be charged with the murder of Elizabeth’s mother, his wife Marcia. On Thursday, Honsch — crippled by a stroke, confined to a wheelchair, unable to speak clearly and partially deaf — was sentenced to what is effectively a life sentence for Elizabeth’s murder."
A decades-long saga, which began in 1995 with a man fatally shooting his wife and teenage daughter, dumping their bodies in two different states and starting a new life in the midwest, ended Wednesday when he was sentenced in a Connecticut courtroom for his daughter's murder.
A MOTHER and daughter were killed and their family reportedly didn’t know for 19 years because they thought the pair moved to Australia. Robert Honsch, 78, was the one responsible for killing…