Prosecutors: Man confessed in Pa. torture slaying
Dan NephinProsecutors say they have a taped confession from one of the six people accused of torturing and killing a mentally disabled western Pennsylvania woman.
Westmoreland County prosecutors played the tape of 20-year-old Melvin Knight's statement to police during a preliminary hearing Thursday morning.
Knight says on the tape that he forced 30-year-old Jennifer Daugherty to drink urine before stabbing her at the urging of another suspect.
Investigators say the group also forced Daugherty to drink detergent and write a suicide note before killing her and dumping her body in a school parking lot last month in Greensburg, about 30 miles outside of Pittsburgh.
A county judge is deciding whether to hold the group for trial on charges including criminal homicide and kidnapping.