KANSAS CITY — A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been sentenced to life in prison in the death of a woman 18 years ago.
The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1QjYpyo ) reports that the sentence was ordered Friday for 35-year-old Jason L. Rucker. He was convicted last year of first-degree murder in the October 1997 killing of 33-year-old Vicky Ernst.
Co-defendant Torry M. Johnson pleaded guilty in September to first-degree murder. He was sentenced last ...