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Patricia Bentley

Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To Cold Case Killings, Including Massachusetts Woman Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To Cold Case Killings, Including Massachusetts Woman
Man Serving Life For Murder Confesses To Cold Case Killings, Including Massachusetts Woman A man sentenced to life in prison after strangling a single mother has been linked to two cold-case killings, including of a Massachusetts woman, according to police. Charles Helem, 52, is serving life in prison at a supermax state prison for the 2002 murder of Patricia Bentley, a 37-year-old single mother from Chantilly, Virginia. He strangled Bentley with a phone cord and his hands, according to officials. This week, Helem was indicted for murder by a Fairfax County grand jury in the 1987 murder of another woman and is also suspected of killing a third woman in Prince George's County in 2…