Steven Wolf murdered 51-year-old Michelle Osborne
FLORIDA KEYS – Attorney General Ashley Moody’s Office of Statewide Prosecution immediately secured a responsible conviction and unanimous vote recommending the dying penalty in opposition to a Florida Keys man who brutally murdered 51-year-old Michelle Osborne in 2018.
Steven Wolf carried out a ugly sexual battery utilizing a big object that resulted in blunt power trauma and killed Osborne.
Due to a number of aggravating elements, together with the heinous nature of the crime and a earlier violent felony conviction of manslaughter 40 years prior, Wolf now faces the dying penalty.
“We secured a unanimous death-penalty recommendation for a depraved killer, who gruesomely murdered a Florida woman,” stated Attorney General Ashley Moody.
“This case is so disturbing, and my heart breaks for the victim’s family. I am so thankful to the jury for sitting through this difficult trial, weighing the evidence presented by my Statewide Prosecutors and taking on the heavy responsibility of a case such as this.”
According to the investigation, carried out by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, native fishermen discovered a lady’s physique in a distant space.
Investigators quickly discovered automobile components across the physique that belonged to Wolf’s van. Authorities positioned the van deserted in a Kmart parking zone.
The investigation uncovered that Wolf used a big object to penetrate the sufferer’s genitals, inflicting blunt power trauma, and strangled the girl earlier than dumping the physique.
Attorney General Moody’s Statewide Prosecutors secured a conviction in opposition to Wolf for first-degree homicide and sexual battery. Wolf faces the dying penalty, with a unanimous vote of the jury for advice.
Assistant Statewide Prosecutors Cass and Christina Castillo prosecuted the case by means of an settlement with the State Attorney for the sixteenth Judicial Circuit. The last resolution whether or not to comply with the unanimous advice of the jury will likely be made by the sixteenth Judicial Circuit Judge Mark H. Jones, who presided over the case.