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(AP) — A former Elwood, Kansas man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for killing his girlfriend in Iowa in 2018.
The Fort Dodge Messenger reports that 34-year-old Zackery Bassett must serve at least 35 years of the sentence that was handed down Monday.
A jury in February convicted Bassett of second-degree murder in the death of 50-year-old Andrea Solokowski. She was killed in September 2018 in Webster City, Iowa. Prosecutors said Bassett had abused and stalked Solokowski, of Sioux City, Iowa, for more than a year before her death.
An autopsy found injuries consistent with asphyxiation but Solokowski’s cause of death was listed as undetermined.
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