SEATTLE (Reuters) — A Seattle-area man has been found guilty of killing his attractive mail-order bride from Kyrgyzstan and dumping her body on an Indian reservation, a court official said Friday.
A jury in Snohomish County Superior Court handed down their verdict Thursday after a five-week trial that heard prosecutors tell how Indle King Jr. pinned down his 20-year-old wife Anastasia while a friend strangled her with a necktie.
The first-degree murder conviction means King, 40, faces 21 to 27 years in prison when he is sentenced next month, prosecutors said.
King had pleaded not guilty and tried to blame the murder of his wife, Anastasia, solely on Daniel Larson, a convicted sex offender who was a tenant in King's home in the Seattle suburb of Mountlake Terrace.
Larson pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the case last year and testified against King.