Man Acquitted of Murder Charged Again

A man who was acquitted on state charges in a 1994 murder in Cattaraugus County is now facing federal charges in connection with a murder-for- hire plot with his alleged victim’s wife.

56-year-old Randall Knight of Akron, Ohio, faces up to life in prison for the death of 32-year-old Andie Gasper, who was found stabbed in his pickup truck on July 3, 1994, behind Ames Plaza on Route 16 in Yorkshire.

Last week Gasper’s wife, Cheryl Jenkins Gasper, was charged in state court with second-degree murder in connection with her husband’s death.

The US Attorney’s office says Knight and Cheryl Gasper had a five-year extramarital affair before the murder and had planned to cash a $100,000 life insurance policy to buy a “dream house” and be together.

http://www.justice.gov/usao/nyw/press/press_releases/KnightPress.pdf

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