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A Prince George's County jury has convicted a 25-year-old man in the 2003 slayings of two elderly women in a Suitland flower shop.
State's Attorney Glenn F. Ivey says Adam Isaiah Neal of southeast Washington was convicted Monday of two counts of first-degree murder and other offenses in the Sept. 24, 2003, killings of 76-year-old Mary Francis McDonald and 73-year-old Madeline Lovelace Thompson.
The women were found in McDonald's floral shop on Suitland Road; both had been stabbed and cut repeatedly.
Ivey said in a statement that Neal repeatedly tortured and abused the women in order to steal $60 from them.
The murder investigation remained open until February 2006, when investigators tied Neal to the crime via DNA. He was in jail in northern Virginia on unrelated charges at the time.
Neal is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 8.
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