Edwards
KINGSTON – The man accused of stabbing another man to death last
year pled guilty in Ulster County Court on Tuesday.
Prior to the completion of jury selection, Earl Edwards, Jr., 26, pled guilty to murdering Rameen Perry, 40, on May 26, 2016.
Edwards broke into the home of his estranged wife at about 3:20 a.m.
and in a jealous rage stabbed Perry in the heart, killing him. Immediately
after, Edwards fled to New York City where he purchased a train ticket
to South Carolina. He was intercepted in Washington, DC by members of
the Amtrak Police Department and extradited back to Ulster County.
Ulster County District Attorney Holley Carnright said it was one of the oldest motives, a crime of passion.
“Like so many cases that we see, a very tragic situation, certainly one of the more harrowing experiences that I could imagine from the victim’s perspective, that being the estranged wife,” Carnright said.
When sentenced in April, Edwards faces from 15 years to life in prison.
