MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) — Thirty-four years after a pregnant lady was discovered stabbed to loss of life in Muskegon, authorities are charging a person along with her homicide.
Darick Anderson, 59, faces a depend of open homicide within the June 30, 1991, loss of life of Talfrieda Covington, courtroom data present.
“It has been a long road for the victim’s family and friends, but our investigation has finally brought us to a point where justice is within reach,” Muskegon County Prosecutor D.J. Hilson stated in a Wednesday launch.
Stories from the Muskegon Chronicle say a passerby discovered Covington, 28, lifeless exterior her residence in on Valley Avenue close to E. Delano Avenue. Her 3-year-old son was discovered unhurt inside the house.
Prosecutors stated on the time Covington had been stabbed a number of occasions, the Chronicle reported. It stated neighbors had heard yelling round 5:30 a.m. that morning.
Anderson can also be accused of perjury. Court docket data say that in August 2024, underneath an investigative subpoena, he stated he had not had any current contact with Covington or her residence, that he was not current when she died and was not concerned, that he by no means had bodily contact along with her, and that he did not have any knives across the time of her loss of life besides a machete. Authorities say these had been lies.
Anderson is already in a Michigan jail, the place he is serving two life sentences for homicide within the deaths of two males in Grand Haven in 2008.
In accordance with MLive, jeweler Robert Karell, 71, and buyer Louis Parapella, 77, had been discovered lifeless in Karell’s downtown workplace on July 2, 2008. At trial, MLive reported, Darick Anderson blamed the killings on his youthful brother, saying Dmitri Anderson is the one who shot each victims behind the top when the brothers went to the jewellery retailer to rob it.
A 2024 picture of Darick Anderson from the Michigan Division of Corrections.
A 2022 picture of Dmitri Anderson from the Michigan Division of Corrections.
Dmitri Anderson, now 56, can also be serving life in jail.
Darick Anderson is being charged as a third-time ordinary offender as a result of he had two felony convictions earlier than Covington’s loss of life, with data exhibiting he was convicted of breaking and getting into in 1985 and escaping jail in 1986.
Covington’s loss of life was investigated by Muskegon police and chilly case group organized by the prosecutor.
