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Western Indiana Man gets 60 Years in Estranged Wife’s Death

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) – A western Indiana man convicted of killing his estranged wife and dumping her body along a rural road has been sentenced to 60 years in prison.

The Vigo County judge who sentenced 40-year-old Enzert Lewis on Tuesday also ordered mental health treatment for him while he's in prison.

The Tribune-Star reports (http://bit.ly/1MwVGR9 ) Lewis' public defenders say he was recently diagnosed with schizophrenia.

A jury convicted Lewis in January of murder, obstruction of justice and altering the scene of a death in the October 2012 killing of 39-year-old Allyson Elmi-Lewis.

Her remains were found the following month along a road in a remote area of eastern Vigo County.

Two witnesses testified that Lewis acknowledged that he killed his wife and hid her body. The murder scene also was scrubbed with bleach.

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  Information from: Tribune-Star, http://www.tribstar.com 

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