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Hit Man Cases Not New to County
By washingtonpost.com staff
June 11, 1997
During the past four years, at least five previous murder-for-hire cases have come to court in Montgomery County:
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Lawrence T. Horn
(Sketch by William J. Hennessy Jr.)
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In May 1996, Lawrence T. Horn was found guilty of first-degree murder and murder conspiracy for hiring a Detroit man to kill his ex-wife, his severely retarded son and the son's nurse in Silver Spring. The hit man, James Edward Perry, had purchased a how-to manual titled "Hit Man" before committing the murders in March 1993.
Charles S. Shapiro
(File photo)
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In October 1996, developer Charles S. Shapiro pleaded guilty to hiring a moonlighting police officer to knock off his cousin over a real estate deal. Shapiro, a Potomac resident, tried to take back his guilty plea, saying he had been impaired by tranquilizers and an overdose of Tums antacid.
In 1995, charges were filed against the son of county landfill owner William H. Mossburg Jr. in a plot to kill his father, police said. But a grand jury refused to indict Christopher M. Mossburg, of Germantown, after his father said he was convinced his son was just "shooting his mouth off."
In February 1994, Lu Ming Virrey of Silver Spring was sentenced to three years in prison for offering an undercover FBI agent $10,000 to cripple her ex-boyfriend and kill his wife and son. The three were not harmed.
In March 1993, Harold F. O'Flaherty, who is blind, was sentenced to five years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill his wife while he was having an affair. The Gaithersburg man's wife, Annette, was not hurt.
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