Erika and Benjamin Sifrit

Erika Elaine Sifrit and Benjamin Adam BJ Sifrit were an American couple convicted of murdering two tourists, Joshua Edward Ford and Martha Margene Geney Crutchley, in Ocean City, Maryland in 2002. The case drew substantial media attention. In 2003, both Sifrits were convicted in the murders.

Erika Elaine Grace was born in Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania to Charlotte Gail Cookie and Gerald Mitchell Grace. Benjamin Adam BJ Sifrit was born in Estherville, Iowa to Elizabeth Ann Buffie and Craig Arthur Sifrit. Erika Grace and Benjamin Sifrit married in 1998, when they were bothyears old. She was an honors student and basketball star at Mary Washington College, and he was a former Navy SEAL who had received a bad conduct discharge from the Navy for repeatedly being absent without leave, insubordination, and wearing unauthorized insignia. Shortly after marrying, the couple moved near Erikas hometown of Altoona, Pennsylvania. There, the couple opened and operated a scrapbook store.

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