(Jessup, MD) – Diligent work by troopers from the Maryland State Police Cold Case Unit and support from forensic experts, a federal grant, and Anne Arundel County prosecutors, led to the conviction and sentencing this week of an inmate found guilty of the murder of a fellow inmate nine years ago.
The accused is identified as Edgar C. Davis Jr., 38, who is an inmate in the Maryland Division of Correction. Davis pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court on February 1, 2010. He was sentenced to ten years in prison, which he is to serve concurrently with his present 90-year sentence for two counts of murder, kidnapping and handgun use from Baltimore City.
The murder victim in this case is identified as Ray A. Hamlet, who was 23 when he was stabbed on January 11, 2001 while walking out of a dining area in the Maryland House of Correction, a former state prison in Jessup. Hamlet died from his wounds and his murder was investigated by the Maryland State Police.
In 2001, Hamlet and Davis were both inmates at the Maryland House of Correction. During the initial investigation, witnesses failed to identify Davis as the person responsible. The recovered murder weapon, a prison shank, was submitted for analysis and DNA linked both Davis and Hamlet to the murder weapon. Absent witness information to show how Davis’ DNA got on the weapon, there was no indictment and the |
