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Homeless man admits to suffocating lover

Originally published: October 17, 2012 7:23 PM
Updated: October 17, 2012 9:24 PM
By ANDREW SMITH  andrew.smith@newsday.com

A homeless man admitted Wednesday in Suffolk County Court that he suffocated his lover with a pillow during sex last year in a Riverhead motel.

Douglas Rico, 46, pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the May 2011 death of Henrietta Sholl, 53. In return for the plea, Suffolk County Court Judge John Toomey Jr. promised to sentence Rico to no more than 7 years in prison, and would consider...

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