Douglas Patrick, left, and Robert Singletary, right.

SALISBURY — Two men will serve life in prison without the possibility of parole after being convicted of murder in the 2021 killing of Judy Eller Hoffner.

“This has been a nightmare for the last four years. I can’t imagine any other family being in our shoes and going through this. There’s nobody on the other side of the phone to say I love you, no Christmas presents to give, no flowers to buy. She will never enjoy Thanksgiving again at my brother’s,” said Stanley Stiller, Hoffner’s son.

Both Robert Maurice Singletary of Salisbury and Douglas Martin Patrick of Winston-Salem were convicted of first-degree murder, breaking and entering, attempted robbery with a dangerous weapon and possession of a firearm by a felon on Monday. During th

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