February 14, 2013 THOMAS LEE POSEY

A 57-year-old convicted rapist has pleaded guilty to killing a young NASA intern and the rapes of two University of Maryland students during the early 1990s. Thomas Lee Posey, a longtime Maryland prisoner, has pleaded to first-degree murder in the June 1990 rape and strangulation of 22-year-old Margaret Perkins, an intern at the Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt. Her body was found in Berwyn Heights, MD. Posey last week also admitted to raping two different college students in May and September of that same year. This was a cold case and I commend all Park Police Officers and Detectives with this ongoing investigation since 1990. 

“The dead cannot cry out for justice. It is a duty of the living to do so for them.” We can put to rest that this monster will not harm anyone outside his confinement and Ms. Perkins can rest in peace knowing that justice served bringing her case to a closure.

-Chief Kenneth K. Antolik