A New York man serving time for fatally strangling a 32-year-old mother is now charged with killing his prison cellmate.
Kevin Farley, 42, of Canastota, was indicted Wednesday on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of criminal possession of a weapon, court records show.
Farley is accused of strangling 40-year-old Adam Lafferty to death on Dec. 23, 2024, in the cell the two men shared at Five Points Correctional Facility in Romulus, Seneca County, according to the Finger Lakes Times.
Lafferty, who was serving two to seven years for burglary, was found unconscious in his bed with severe head bruises and ligature marks on his neck, the paper reported.
Farley is currently serving a 24-to-life sentence for the killing of Tiffany Meeks 10 years ago.
Meeks, a mother of two and longtime acquaintance of Farley, was strangled to death with a computer cord on the night of Aug. 3, 2015. Prosecutors say he entered his former neighbor’s home in Oneida in an attempt to rape her.
After killing Meeks, Farley stole her debit card and car and drove from Madison County to Onondaga County, syracuse.com reported. He later carjacked a woman at a supermarket in Syracuse by threatening her with a knife, but crashed into another vehicle when trying to escape, officials said.
He was arrested while attempting to flee on foot.
In May 2016, Farley pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and related charges in Meeks’ killing.