‘Head protruding from the ground’: Man gets centuries in prison for brutal strangulation and dragging death of man in rural community

A California man will spend the rest of his life behind bars — and then some — for brutally strangling another man to death.

Earlier this year, Kenneth McNally Jr., 42, was found guilty by a jury of his peers in San Diego County on every charge against him for the 2023 murder of 59-year-old Samuel Holthaus.

All told, the jury convicted the defendant on one count each of murder in the first degree, shooting at an inhabited or occupied structure or vehicle, and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, as well as two counts of assault with a semiautomatic firearm…

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