PA Man Pleads Guilty To Girlfriend’s Stabbing Death At NJ Hotel

MAYS LANDING, NJ – A Pennsylvania man pleaded guilty this week to stabbing his girlfriend to death at an Atlantic City hotel in 2021, authorities said.

Frankie E. Lane, 61, pleaded guilty to the aggravated manslaughter charge on Tuesday in exchange for a 20-year term in state prison, the Atlantic City Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release.

Lane must serve 85% of his sentence before being eligible for parole, prosecutors said.

On June 11, 2021, Atlantic City authorities responded to the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City for a report of a woman suffering from multiple stab wounds. The victim, later identified as Lane’s girlfriend, was found dead in a hotel room with a sheet covering her body and a knife on top of the sheet, prosecutors said.

Lane was seen on surveillance footage wearing clothing that was later found in a bag that had been tossed in a trash can in the city. He was also observed leaving the hotel with the bag but did not have it with him at the Atlantic City bus terminal, where he traveled back to Philadelphia.

Lane was located and surrendered to law enforcement a few days later. Sentencing will be on Friday, June 23, 2023.