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Kansas City woman gets life for staging fake break in & murdering husband for insurance payout

Viola Bowman Missouri woman sentenced to life prison for staging break in and murdering husband. Had rejected plea deal that would have set her free.

‘I did not do it.’ A Missouri woman has been sentenced to life in prison for staging fake break in & murdering her husband in Kansas City nine years ago.

Viola Bowman, who rejected an earlier plea deal that would have freed her, was sentenced by Judge Shane T. Alexander after being found guilty at trial of first-degree murder and armed criminal action three weeks ago. Read the full story here ▶