OSSIPEE, N.H. — A second New Hampshire man has been sentenced in connection with the disappearance and death last year of a Maine woman whose toddler daughter was found abandoned in her car.
Trevor Ferguson, of Tamworth, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring to rob Krista Dittmeyer, 20. He was sentenced to at least seven years in prison.
He was accused of driving the getaway car after the crime in exchange for money and drugs that two other men hoped to steal from Dittmeyer.
WMUR-TV reported Ferguson apologized in court and that his grandmother spoke on his behalf.
Dittmeyer, of Portland, Maine, was found in a snowmaking pond at Cranmore Mountain in Conway last year. The discovery came four days after her car was found idling in the ski area’s parking lot with her 14-month-old daughter unharmed inside.
Anthony Papile, of Ossipee, pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 50 years in prison. The case is still pending of another man charged with conspiracy to commit robbery, Michael Petelis.
Prosecutors said Dittmeyer was lured to Petelis’s apartment in Ossipee. He clubbed her in the head three times as she was climbing the stairs. Prosecutors had said Papile and Petelis had plotted to steal drugs and money from her.
Prosecutors said Papile and Petelis bound Dittmeyer’s legs and torso with duct tape and put her in the trunk of her car, which Papile drove to the ski area. Papile submerged her underwater.
Should of committed the crime in bangor…the town where you can beat and burn a homeless man to death and get the same sentence.
Lemme get this right, in today’s news a man got 7.5 years for ordering drugs for Meh-hi-co, and this guy gets a half a year LESS for being complicit in a murder? Oy.
Not enough. Should have gotten life.
Different subject and no disrepect to the victim, but why this is about a “Portland mom” and not a Portland woman? Being a mother is a part of her life and we never read about a Portland “dad” being harmed. Using this label, while perhaps well intended contributes to the perception people have about women.
Let’s remember that this girl was selling drugs
So because she was selling drugs the sentence of her killers should be less? A human life is still a human life no matter how vile the deeds of the person was. It wouldn’t matter if they were a saint or if they were a Charles Manson type…the murder is still murder.