A 75-year old woman was sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband during the mid-1970s. The trial for the said incident was held in Wyoming.

Alice Uden, the woman who killed her husband, was quietly sitting on her wheelchair with a court-supplied hearing aid as the sentence was read. Uden was found guilty of second-degree murder.

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The woman cried gently as she wished to have never met her frightening deceased husband.

According to Uden, she shot her ex-husband, Holtz, in the head in order to defend their daughter from her father. However, jurors did not buy her allegations.

Judge Steven Sharpe from Laramie County District Court said that he considered other possible mitigating factors, such as the fact that Uden had no prior criminal history.

He added that the murder was a cold and a calculated one, in which the jury rejected the defense's argument that self-defense played a major role in the incident. This denial of such claim was further backed by the presentation of evidence against Uden.

The incident happened in the couple's house, where they were living with their then two-year-old daughter. Reports showed that after Uden shot Holtz, she put her husband's body in a cardboard barrel and dumped him in an abandoned gold mine between Laramie and Cheyenne.

Prosecutors argued that Uden shot Holtz using a rifle while he was asleep. Testimony from Todd Scott, one of Uden's sons, bolstered this argument as he attested to the fact his mother admitted to him the crime even before the discovery of the body.

Search for Holtz' remains had been a difficult task. Investigators needed to make several attempts as the mine was already filled with carcasses of cattle and other animals. It was only last summer that they were able to dig deeper and found Holtz' remains.

Donald Miler, Uden's attorney urged the jury in sentencing Uden to probation for the reason that the now-grown two-year-old toddler, Erica Puntry, has cancer and is given six months to live.

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