A woman accused of faking a pregnancy was sentenced to life in prison without parole for killing an acquaintance to claim the woman's 6-week-old infant as her own.
Kimmi Hardy, 36, bowed her head but showed little emotion Thursday after a jury found her guilty of first-degree murder, second-degree kidnapping and child stealing. In addition to life imprisonment, Judge David Hendrickson sentenced Hardy to a maximum of 25 years for the kidnapping."We didn't think she or her story was credible," said a juror, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
Authorities said Hardy fooled her husband, Robert, with a faked pregnancy and, on Aug. 28, lured Theresa Lynn Lund, 34, to her home and killed her with two gunshots to the head, then passed off Lund's 6-week-old son, Paul, as her own.
The plot unraveled, authorities said, when Hardy held a baby shower and a guest, realizing the infant was not newborn, called the FBI.
Hardy claimed that she bought a baby boy from two employees of a Florida drug dealer named Anthony Matrana. She accused him of putting the mother's body in a crawl space at Hardy's home.