TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP): A judge has sentenced a Terre Haute man to 100 years in prison after DNA found on the victim's shirt linked him to a 1979 slaying.
Fifty-eight-year-old Richard Boswell was sentenced Monday for the murder of 19-year-old Kathy Jo Baker of Riley and the attempted murder of her then 2-year-old son.
A Vigo County jury convicted him in April during his third trial. He stood trial twice in 2013, but both ended in mistrials.
Defense attorney Michael Wright argued that Boswell should serve the sentences at the same time instead of consecutively because the crimes occurred at the same time.
Boswell's DNA was in a state database when a 2008 test on blood found on Baker's shirt linked him to the crimes.
