FORT DODGE, Iowa (AP) - An Indiana man accused of killing a woman and burning her body has been sentenced to 30 years in an Iowa prison.
Webster County District Court records say 26-year-old Phillip Williams, of Lafayette, Indiana, was sentenced Monday in Fort Dodge. He’d pleaded guilty to attempted murder and abuse of a human corpse. He and 27-year-old Mackenzie Knigge were charged with first-degree murder in the August 2017 slaying of 26-year-old Jessica Gomez in Knigge’s Clare apartment. Prosecutors lowered the murder charge against Williams in return for his pleas.
Knigge’s trial is scheduled to begin June 10.
Please read our comment policy before commenting.