A North Carolina man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the “cold-blooded and calculated” murder of his ex-girlfriend in Virginia.
In April, Trenton Frye, 31, was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in Bedford County for the death of Katlyn Lyon Montgomery, 28, who was found strangled at her own home in October 2022.
On Tuesday, 24th Judicial Circuit Judge James Updike Jr. sentenced Frye to life in prison — in excess of Old Dominion sentencing guidelines…