130-Year Sentence In Deaths Of 2 Found In Barrels

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Story Published: Apr 2, 2009 at 2:15 PM EDT

Story Updated: Apr 2, 2009 at 1:31 PM EDT

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) - A southern Indiana man convicted of
shooting two men in the head and then hiding their bodies in drums
near his rural home has been sentenced to 130 years in prison.

A Monroe County judge on Thursday sentenced 52-year-old Jerry
Pelfree to two consecutive 65-year terms.

Jurors in February convicted Pelfree on two counts of murder in
the slayings of 35-year-old Everett Lynn Shaw of Gosport and
23-year-old Douglas Allen Brown of Bloomington. Their dismembered,
decaying bodies were found in September 2007 inside steel-drum
barrels near Pelfree's home a few miles outside Bloomington.

Judge Marc Kellams said that the treatment of the bodies was
"so disagreeable to the senses of human dignity that it is
shocking to the conscience."

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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