Mistress Of Accused Fort Meade Murderer Testifies

BALTIMORE, MD — Dolores Delgado, the mistress of Army Master Sgt. Maliek Kearney, testified in court Wednesday as a government witness in the murder case against Kearney, according to the Capital Gazette. Kearney is being accused of killing his wife in her Severn home in August 2015.

Kearney and Karlyn Ramirez, an Army private, had just separated that month. They allegedly had a rocky and unfaithful relationship. Ramirez obtained a protective order through the Army prohibiting all contact between the couple.

Ramirez, the mother of a 4-month-old, was found shot to death in her townhome by police with her baby sleeping next to her body. Her pants and underwear had been pulled down in an apparent attempt to make the scene look like a sexual assault.

Delgado, an Army veteran of Iraq, testified that she had assisted Kearney in killing Ramirez. The Gazette reported Delgado testified she had a long affair with Kearney, which started before the marriage and continued after the wedding.

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“He was planning to [go to Severn] and kill his wife if she didn’t reconcile with him,” Delgado testified. Kearney was stationed at Fort Jackson in South Carolina at the time. She said they took specific measures to help ensure he wouldn't get caught, like filling gas cans so he wouldn't be seen at a gas station.

Delgado lent Kearney her Nissan Altima, a less conspicuous vehicle than his Jaguar, she said, alongside her revolver. He left his phone with Delgado, who sent two texts while he was gone to establish an alibi, she testified, according to the Gazette.

Though she gave him a gun, Delgado said she didn't expect Kearney to kill Ramirez. “I believed there was some chance of Karlyn seeing Mr. Kearney and working things out,” she said, the Gazette reported. “I told him that he wasn’t going to do anything … that everything would be fine.”

Delgado pleaded guilty to crossing state lines to commit domestic violence which resulted in a death, a federal crime, the Gazette reports. She said she burned Kearney's clothes and ditched the revolver in the Banana River in Florida. She faces a potential sentence of life in prison.

See more:

• Girlfriend Of Slain Fort Meade Soldier's Husband Pleads Guilty In Death
• Husband Killed Wife, Placed Baby in Her Arms, Fled Maryland: FBI
• Husband, His Girlfriend Charged In Fort Meade Mom's Murder (Update)
• Slain Fort Meade Soldier's Husband Stands Trial For Murder

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Article image Karlyn Ramirez, courtesy of Anne Arundel County Police