PAW PAW, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan woman accused of setting her husband on fire then driving a van over his burning body was sentenced to life in prison Monday for murder after failing to convince a jury for the second time that she wasn’t responsible.
Since Todd Stermer’s death nearly 20 years ago, Linda Stermer has been imprisoned then released while winning an appeal and getting a new trial. But now she’s back in custody with a no-parole sentence.
“Murder is by it’s nature a monstrous deed,” Van Buren County Judge Kathleen Brickley said. “But the one you’ve committed is more gruesome than most. I cannot fathom the suffering he endured in his last moments of life.”…