Third suspect sentenced in case of body abandoned in rural Greene County ditch

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) – A third person charged in connection with the fatal shooting and abandonment of a Springfield man found in a rural ditch has been sentenced to prison.

Christopher Key, 51, was sentenced to four years in the Missouri Department of Corrections after being convicted of abandonment of a corpse.

Key’s sentencing follows the August sentencing of co-defendant Shannon Phillips, 45, who also received a four-year prison term in the Department of Corrections for abandonment of a corpse…

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