James Higgason III has been sentenced to 180 years in prison in the killings of a woman and two teenage boys found bludgeoned to death in 1998
CROWN POINT, Ind. -- A judge sentenced a Lake County man to 180 years in prison Friday for killing a woman and two teenage boys found bludgeoned to death in 1998 in a house in northwest Indiana.
He was found guilty May 27 of murder and murder during the commission of a robbery. He has said he will appeal. The victims had their skulls bashed in a drug-fueled"frenzy," Deputy Lake County Prosecuting Attorney Jovanni Miramontes has said.
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