TACOMA — A 43-year-old man has pleaded guilty in Tacoma to kidnapping, raping and killing a 12-year-old girl on the Fourth of July.
The plea Monday in Pierce County Superior Court to an aggravated murder charge means that Terapon Adhahn will spend the rest of his life in prison, without the chance of parole. Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty against the Thai immigrant.
He’ll be sentenced May 2 in Tacoma.
In a hearing before Judge Rosanne Buckner, Adhahn admitted he snatched Zina Linnik from an alley behind her home last July and dumped her body in a wooded area near Silver Lake in eastern Pierce County.
Adhahn also pleaded guilty to a dozen other charges in the rapes of two girls from the Tacoma area, ages 11 and 12.
Information from: The News Tribune, http://www.thenewstribune.com
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