ryan holness

ryan holness
A husband who concocted a twisted tale to cops, claiming his Brooklyn wife was killed by a carjacker, was charged Friday for her murder, Maryland police said.
Ryan Holness, 28, told investigators his wife was stabbed to death by a masked assailant early Friday morning after the man forced the couple to drive from a New Jersey gas station into Maryland, police said.
Serika Holness' heavily-slashed body was found in a field along a rural Kent County road about 6 a.m.
But Ryan Holness' story about how she got there aroused suspicion from the start. After investigators interviewed witnesses and gathered more evidence, they became convinced Ryan Holness' tale was an elaborate ruse.
"We don't know the motive behind all this, and, of course, many, many questions remain unanswered," Maryland State Police spokesman Greg Shipley said.
Holness claimed that he and his 26-year-old wife stopped at a gas station on the New Jersey Turnpike after visiting her relatives in Brooklyn.
He told investigators the assailant, armed with a gun and knife, ordered them to drive into Maryland, where the couple has a second home.
After stopping along a country road, Holness claimed, the attacker dragged him out of the car, bound his hands and feet and then stabbed Serika Holness several times as she tried to flee.
Ryan Holness told investigators he freed himself after several hours and ran into a nearby house to call the cops.
"He didn't know how he got to Maryland....He had said he tried to get away and the man hit him in the groin," Robert Rolfe, who helped Holness call the police, told CBS 2 News. Ryan Holness was charged with first- and second-degree murder Friday night