Cory Allen Voss, left, and Catherina Voss


Michael Draven


David Anthony Runyon


Summary of Offense:

On August 27, 2009, a jury in Norfolk, Virginia unanimously recommended a death sentence for Runyon for the murder of Cory Allen Voss, a naval officer, in Newport News in 2007. Runyon, a former soldier, was convicted of shooting Voss in a murder-for-hire plot organized by Voss's wife, Catherina Voss, and her boyfriend, Michael Draven. The federal government did not seek the death penalty against the other two defendants. Catherina Voss pled guilty and received a life sentence. Draven was found guilty and faces a life sentence. Catherina hired Runyon to kill her husband in the hope of being the beneficiary of a $500,000 life insurance policy.