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Keith Smith, 55, received the sentence, plus three years, for stabbing his wife Jacquelyn to death, and having been convicted of first-degree murder last year, the outlet reports. Even his daughter testified against him.
Smith originally told investigators that Jacquelyn was giving money to a panhandler, who stabbed her dead, authorities said. After his wife was killed, Smith and his daughter fled town — only to be arrested three months later. They were found roughly 1,700 miles from Maryland close to the US-Mexico border.
Investigators linked Smith to the crime by using cellphone records and wiretap warrants that showed he tried to book one-way tickets on flights to Cuba and Canada. He was ultimately unable to leave because he did not have a U.S. passport, authorities said.
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