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Mum 'stabbed to death with screwdriver' by convicted killer released from prison
convicted murderer who was released from prison last year has been charged with another slaying after a young mum's body was found in a canal.The body of Erika Verdecia, 33, was discovered on Saturday after being missing for three weeks, leaving behind a six-year-old daughter.Hours later Eric Pierson, 54, was charged with first-degree murder and confessed to stabbing the single mother four times with a screwdriver on September 25, the day after she went missing.Erika's family had reported her missing September 27, three days after she left home, according to CBS.Her mother Carmen Verdecia reached out to her daughter's friends on social media and one said Erika was last seen with a "grimy" man at a sandwich shop named Eric Pierson.Carmen
