A 43-year-old Southern Californian woman who slashed her boyfriend’s throat and concealed his corpse inside what police called a “makeshift tomb” in her backyard for eight years has been sentenced to 15 years to prison.
A San Bernardino jury late last year found Trista Spicer guilty of second degree murder in the October 2014 slaying of her boyfriend Eric Mercado 42, killing him after he complained about the dinner she served him, according to news outlets.
According to the San Bernardino Sun, Spicer testified during trial that she struck Mercado in the head several times with a cast iron skillet during a violent confrontation after Mercado became upset over the dinner she served him. She then stabbed him in the neck with a kitchen knife he had dropped after she struck him with the skillet…