Gilford would have to serve 92 years behind bars for the crimes

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http://www.suntimes.com/news/8047537-418/man-gets-100-years-for-killing-estranged-wife-their-unborn-son.html

BY DAN ROZEK Staff Reporter/[e-mail] October 5, 2011 10:26AM

A former U.S. Navy recruiter who stabbed his pregnant wife to death in front of her 4-year-old daughter on the child’s birthday was sentenced Wednesday to 100 years in prison.

DuPage County Judge Kathryn Creswell sentenced Eric Gilford to 50 years in prison for the first-degree murder of his estranged wife, 34-year-old Kristine Courtney Gilford, who was about 20 weeks pregnant with their son when she was killed on May 26, 2010.

Creswell gave Gilford another 50 years in prison for intentional homicide of an unborn child, and ordered the sentences to be served consecutively, meaning Gilford would have to serve 92 years behind bars for the crimes.

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1. Sounds fair to me.

Life without Parole would have been better, but that's effectively what this is I suppose. As long as he isn't released sooner that is.

[HappyMe]

2. Good.

Hopefully he doesn't get out at all.