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73-Year-Old Guilty of Killing Neighbor
EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- A judge convicted a 73-year-old woman of first-degree murder Wednesday for killing her older neighbor with 37 hammer blows to the head and sentenced her to life in prison without parole.
Kathy MacClellan declined to speak on her own behalf before receiving her sentence and rocked in her chair as the judge imposed it.
She was found guilty of attacking 84-year-old Marguerite "Tuddy" Eyer with the claw end of a hammer on Feb. 7, 2005, in a mobile home community north of Bethlehem, which is about 45 miles north of Philadelphia.
Eyer identified MacClellan as her killer before she died in the emergency room, and police testified that MacClellan's face, hair and clothing had been covered in Eyer's blood. Prosecutors did not discuss a motive.
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EASTON, Pa. (AP) -- A judge convicted a 73-year-old woman of first-degree murder Wednesday for killing her older neighbor with 37 hammer blows to the head and sentenced her to life in prison without parole.
Kathy MacClellan declined to speak on her own behalf before receiving her sentence and rocked in her chair as the judge imposed it.
She was found guilty of attacking 84-year-old Marguerite "Tuddy" Eyer with the claw end of a hammer on Feb. 7, 2005, in a mobile home community north of Bethlehem, which is about 45 miles north of Philadelphia.
Eyer identified MacClellan as her killer before she died in the emergency room, and police testified that MacClellan's face, hair and clothing had been covered in Eyer's blood. Prosecutors did not discuss a motive.
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