It was the day before Thanksgiving, and Molly Elliott was getting ready to go out on a date night with her husband. The 28-year-old advertising executive left her office in the French Quarter in ...

Hoffman, 46, was convicted in 1996 of the kidnapping, rape, and murder of 28-year-old advertising executive, Mary "Molly" Elliott. Elliott was abducted by Hoffman, who was 18 at the time ...

Kate Murphy, the sister-in-law of Mary "Molly" Elliott, asked in a letter dated Monday for a pardon hearing for Hoffman. Hoffman was convicted in the 1996 abduction, rape and murder of Molly Elliott.

It was the day before Thanksgiving, and Molly Elliott was getting ready to go out on a date night with her husband. The 28-year-old advertising executive left her office in the French Quarter in New ...

who was convicted in the 1996 murder of Mary "Molly" Elliott. (Caroline Tillman/Federal Public Defender's Office For the Middle and Western Districts of Louisiana via AP) ...

Death row inmate Jessie Hoffman was convicted of the brutal rape and murder of 28-year-old Molly Elliott in 1996. He had kidnapped her in New Orleans after she got off work. Hoffman has been ...

Jessie Hoffman Jr., 46, was put to death in Louisiana for the nearly three-decade old murder of Mary 'Molly' Elliott Samira Asma-Sadeque is a legal reporter at PEOPLE's crime desk. He work also ...

Family members of both executed death row inmate Jessie Hoffman Jr. and Mary "Molly" Elliott, the woman Hoffman was convicted of raping and murdering, issued statements Tuesday night in the wake ...