WORCESTER, Mass. — A sex offender charged with burning a motor vehicle in a Worcester cemetery has now been charged with murdering the woman found in its trunk.
Steven Foley, 56, will be arraigned on a murder charge connected to the woman found dead in the trunk of the car.
Police arrested Foley in December at a hotel in Peabody on a charge of burning a motor vehicle. Police say he was hiding under a fake name and had $34,000 in cash and checks on him.
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The burned out car was found in Hope Cemetery in Worcester with the burned body of Cynthia Webb, 60, in the trunk, according to investigators.
Foley is a registered level 3 sex offender, according to the state's sex offender registry. He was convicted three times of rape in the 1980s, including twice for raping a child. He pleaded not guilty to charges of burning a motor vehicle and malicious damage to a motor vehicle last year.