A southern Illinois woman has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing another woman whose burned remains were found in a wooded area.
Jackson County State's Attorney Michael Carr announced Thursday 26-year-old Lauren Stinde of Carbondale pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in November 2016, three months after the remains of 39-year-old Robin Stief of Salem were discovered in Carbondale.
Carr says evidence showed Stief was hit in the head with a hammer, strangled and suffocated at a Carbondale apartment before Stinde and two co-defendants placed her body in a trash can, wheeled it to the wooded area and burned it.
