BUNNELL, Fla. – A Flagler County judge found a woman guilty of murder and other charges in the January 2007 kidnapping and killing of a Daytona Beach woman.
After a non-jury trial, the judge convicted Patricia Roosa, 21, of first-degree felony murder, kidnapping while armed, home invasion armed robbery, burglary of a conveyance and conspiracy to commit burglary and/or home invasion robbery.
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Prosecutors had said Roosa, along with her boyfriend, Cornelius Baker, knocked on the door of 56-year-old Elizabeth Uptagrafft. When she opened the door, investigators said the pair hit her on the head, then held her and her son hostage.
Prosecutors said the two then ransacked the home, and took Uptagrafft with them when they took her car. Her body was later found near a dirt road. She had been shot several times.
Roosa now faces a mandatory life sentence. She will be formally sentenced on June 26.
Baker was convicted of first-degree murder in August, and the jury recommended the death penalty. On March 4, a judge agreed with the recommendation and sentenced Baker to death.