No bail for teen accused of killing girlfriend’s father

Police say Mrs. Anastasi and her daughter plotted the killing and had the teen’s boyfriend carry it out.

Ann Marie Anastasi was denied bail last week.

Gabriel Struss was charged along with his 13-year-old girlfriend and her mother, Ann Anastasi, in the murder that police say was the result of a romance turned sour. Anastasi told police she found her husband the next morning when she returned home from grocery shopping, claiming she saw a gun lying next to his body.

In addition to Struss, who’s charged with two counts of first-degree murder, police have charged a woman and her 13-year-old daughter with murder in the slayings of two people earlier this month in Lothian.

Anastasi Jr. was found shot to death in his master bedroom.

During interviews with police, statements made by Ann Anastasi and the girl were found to be “inconsistent and misleading”.

Jacquelyn Riggs, the 25-year-old woman who was involved in a love triangle with the couple, was found dead in the basement.

Forensic analysis of several pieces of evidence “did not coincide with what the crime scene depicted”, police said.

Adams went on to further state that the Maryland woman was “instrumental” in covering up the crime and said what was especially bothersome about the crime was that the woman would end up including her daughter and her boyfriend in carrying out the killings.

According to charging documents, text messages between the three suspects discussed the boyfriend bringing a weapon to the Anastasis’ home to “harm two people”.

A judge denied bail to 18-year-old Gabriel Struss of Annapolis, who faces two counts of first-degree murder. Struss was charged with two counts of first-and second-degree murder, two counts of conspiracy to commit first-and second-degree murder and two counts of firearm use in a felony crime of violence.

In one specific text, according to charging documents, Struss told the girl not to speak with police or that he “would be going away for life”. The woman initially told police her husband committed suicide, but authorities said the cover-up unraveled as investigators learned the evidence didn’t match her story.

Reached by telephone Friday at his home in Florida, the wife’s father said that he spoke to his daughter several times after the bodies were found and that she “seemed to be doing reasonably well”. The girl is charged as a juvenile.