Part 1 of a three-part series

A trail of deception

Cindy McKay charmed and cheated, without remorse

Part 2 of a three-part series

For police detective, an intriguing suspect

Cindy McKay is elusive but not quite invisible during chase

Part 3 of a three-part series

A fatal romance

Cindy McKay embroils two sons in a deadly affair

Probe of death renewed

Baltimore County police said yesterday that homicide detectives are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a 2002 fire, launching a fresh inquiry into the case after the recent sentencing of the man's widow in the killing of her boyfriend more than three years later.

A son looks to the future

Matthew Haarhoff left jail in Anne Arundel County and headed straight for a playground in Dundalk, where he executed a perfect back-flip dismount from a swing and chased his 10-year-old nephew around the jungle gym.

McKay son enters plea

The 20-year-old son of a career thief who received 30 years in prison Wednesday in the stabbing death of her boyfriend entered a guilty plea yesterday to a charge that he helped dispose of the body.

McKay gets maximum term

A brazen con artist received the maximum sentence of 30 years in prison yesterday for the 2006 murder of her boyfriend, after adding another bizarre chapter to a life of crime with a court appearance that included a last-ditch attempt to take back her guilty plea.

3rd plea in man's death

The 20-year-old son of a brazen con artist who has been convicted of killing her boyfriend and then setting his body on fire is scheduled to plead guilty later this month for his role in that crime, according to court records.

Woman convicted of murder

A 52-year-old career thief and mother of six was convicted yesterday of secretly stealing thousands of dollars from her boyfriend and stabbing him to death before his body was found burning along an Anne Arundel County road.

Woman, sons accused in the same killing

A Millersville woman whose two sons were charged with murder in the fatal stabbing of her boyfriend was indicted yesterday on first-degree murder and handgun charges.

3rd family member charged in killing

A second son of a woman whose boyfriend's body was found burning on the side of a Millersville road has been charged with murder, making him the third member of that family charged in connection with the February slaying of Anthony Frank Fertitta, 50, of Baltimore.

Teen charged in Arundel slaying case

A Millersville teenager was arrested in Salisbury yesterday and charged with killing a 50-year-old Baltimore man whose body was found burning along a road in Anne Arundel County last week, county police said.

Police review '02 fire death

The arrest of a Millersville woman on a murder accessory charge in the stabbing death of her boyfriend, whose body was found burning last week, has prompted the Baltimore County police to review the circumstances of another fire that killed the woman's third husband in 2002.

Woman linked to death, burning of man is denied bond

A woman charged with accessory after first-degree murder in the death of Anthony Frank Fertitta - a 50-year-old Baltimore man who was fatally stabbed, dumped in a quiet Millersville neighborhood and set on fire last week - was ordered held without bond yesterday by an Anne Arundel County District Court judge.

Female inmates' message: Don't join us behind bars

During the past four years at the Maryland Correctional Institution for Women, Cindy McKay and Cynthia L. Smith have seen women file in by the hundreds, and watched their families breaking up in the wake.Now McKay and Smith are sending a message to women from behind bars: Don't join us here.