A Texas man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his ex-girlfriend in a brutal home invasion while armed with a car jack.
Karl Andrew Stanley, 55, was convicted Thursday by a jury on one count of capital murder by terroristic threat over the November 2024 death of 51-year-old Paola Becvar. The killing happened Nov. 25, 2024, at a home on Seattle Slew Drive in the Mustang Lakes area of Celina, a medium-sized city along the far northern edge of the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.
Celina police officers arrived at the woman’s house after a burglary call around 3:15 p.m. that day, according to a report by Dallas-based ABC affiliate WFAA…