A Greene County judge has sentenced a New York woman to 20 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing a man in 2021 — a killing prosecutors say mirrors a nearly identical attack she carried out a year earlier.

Carrie Weiser, 36, was convicted in June of second-degree murder in the death of Scott Myers, 68, a well-known Catskill resident and local activist. Prosecutors said Weiser stabbed Myers in the neck after a night out drinking together, killing him inside his home.

The two had known each other for several years, first meeting in 2018 and reconnecting in November 2021 at a local food pantry. They later went to a nearby bar, according to the Times Union, before heading back to Myers’ home, where he was killed later that night.

Weiser initially told police that Myers tried to rape her and that she acted in self-defense. She claimed he spiked her drink and attacked her, prompting her to grab a knife and fight back. Investigators, however, said there was no evidence to support those claims.

“Weiser has serious mental health issues, which she has exhibited through her criminal acts, and she showed no interest in mental health treatment,” Greene County District Attorney Joseph Stanzione said in a statement after sentencing.

Stanzione added that Myers wasn’t the first man Weiser had allegedly stabbed in the neck. In April 2020, a year and a half before Myers’ death, another man was hospitalized at Columbia Memorial Hospital after being stabbed twice during what he described as a sexual encounter with Weiser. The man nearly died but survived thanks to medical intervention.

At the time, he refused to cooperate with law enforcement. But after hearing about Myers’ murder, he contacted investigators, saying he feared Weiser “would continue in her quest of stabbing men.”

According to the district attorney, the man told police that Weiser suggested cutting him “to heighten their sexual experience” before unexpectedly stabbing him in the neck. The pattern, prosecutors argued, showed premeditation and a clear understanding of her actions.

During the trial, Weiser’s defense raised a number of alternate theories — that she was defending herself against an abusive partner, that she had been drugged, or that Myers stabbed himself. Stanzione said none of those claims were supported by evidence.

Weiser’s attorney also played the 911 call she made after the killing, in which she sounded incoherent and appeared intoxicated. But prosecutors argued that the recording reflected her mental state, not her innocence.

After her conviction, her defense team asked the court for leniency, arguing that Weiser had been a victim of domestic violence. Prosecutors reviewed those claims and said they found no proof.

“She proved to be quite the cunning individual,” Stanzione said. “She showed no remorse at any stage of the proceedings.”