Hillsborough: Trial opens in case of 2 murders

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By JANET ZINK, Times Staff Writer
Published October 25, 2007

TAMPA - Robin Canady picked up her daughter Ranesha Singleton from work the night of Aug. 23, 2002, but the two never made it home.

Khalid Ali Pasha, 54, had other plans for his wife and stepdaughter, said Assistant State Attorney Jalal Harb in his opening statements in Pasha's murder trial.

Harb said Pasha beat and stabbed the two women to death and left their bodies by the side of a road in a cul-de-sac in the Woodlands Corporate Center on Waters Avenue, west of Dale Mabry Highway.

Pasha is charged with two counts of first-degree premeditated murder. Harb wants Pasha put to death if he is convicted of the murders of Canady, 43, and Singleton, 20.