Wilmington man pleads guilty to First Degree Murder in 2009 stabbing death
Wilmington – Attorney General Beau Biden announced that Pernell Stroman, age 24 of Wilmington,
pled guilty today before Superior Court Judge John A. Parkins Jr. to First Degree Murder, Burglary 1st
Degree, and Possession of a Deadly Weapon During the Commission of a Felony for the June, 11 2009
death of Julie Gricol in her Wilmington apartment. Stroman faces the mandatory sentence of life in
prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced on November 15, 2010.

“Nothing can change the fact that Julie Gricol was taken senselessly and brutally from her
family,” Biden stated. “That is why her killer will spend the rest of his life behind bars.”

On June 11, 2009, when Julie did not report to work, concerned friends went to her apartment
and found her unconscious in her bed suffering from a laceration to her neck. Meanwhile, in the hours
before the killing was discovered, Stroman was stopped by police in Pennsylvania while driving the
victim’s vehicle and was cited for traffic violations and released. After the homicide was discovered,
Stroman became a suspect and he was apprehended on June 14 in Wilmington. He has been
imprisoned without bond in Delaware since his arrest.
The case was prosecuted by Deputy Attorney General James Kriner.
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