CANTON, Miss. (AP) - A Mississippi man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole in the 2018 stabbing deaths of his wife and stepdaughter.
Walter Simpson, 47, was sentenced Tuesday by Madison County Circuit Judge Steve Ratliff. A jury on Oct. 29 convicted Simpson of two counts of murder, one count of arson and one count of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
In addition to life without parole for each of the murder convictions, Simpson was sentenced to 20 years for arson and 10 years for the gun charge, District Attorney Bubba Bramlett said in a news release.
On June 5, 2018, Madison County sheriff’s deputies were called to the Camden home where Walter and Falonda Simpson and her daughter Davonda Washington lived. The burned, stabbed bodies of Falonda Simpson and Washington were found in the house.
Bramlett said investigators found that Simpson had stabbed the two women to death and had tried to set their bodies and the house on fire.
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