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Woman charged with murder of Army vet working as pizza driver

An Ohio woman is facing charges in connection with the 2012 murder of a pizza delivery driver who was lured to her death, authorities said this week.

Erica Stefanko, 36, was arrested Monday on charges including aggravated murder, kidnapping and gross abuse of a corpse in the death of Ashley Biggs, an Army vet who was strangled by Stefanko’s boyfriend with a 4-foot zip tie, WEWS reports.

Stefanko allegedly placed a phony order with Domino’s Pizza to coax Biggs, 25, to a closed business in New Franklin, where she was ambushed, WKYC reports.

Chad Cobb
Chad CobbSummit County Sheriff's Office

Stefanko’s boyfriend, Chad Cobb, was involved in a heated custody dispute with the Army vet, whose body was later found in the back of an abandoned car in a Wayne County cornfield.

Police said Cobb and Biggs, who were not married, were fighting over their 6-year-old daughter.

Stefanko, whose name then was Erica Lyon, was married to Cobb at the time. She was charged more than seven years after Biggs’ death after police got information linking her to the killing, WEWS reports.

In 2013, Cobb pleaded guilty to killing Biggs and was sentenced to life in prison without parole, WKYC reports.