Ex-Navy SEAL Gets Prison for Killing Tourist
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ROCKVILLE, Md. — A former Navy SEAL was sentenced to 38 years in prison Monday for killing and dismembering a tourist after a night of partying during the 2002 Memorial Day weekend.
At the sentencing, Montgomery County Circuit Judge Paul Weinstein called Benjamin Sifrit a butcher and said he didn’t believe his story that his wife was the killer.
“This was nothing more than a thrill killing that you and your wife committed,” he said.
Sifrit, 25, was convicted in April of second-degree murder in the death of Martha Crutchley of Fairfax, Va. Crutchley, 52, and her companion, Joshua Ford, 31, were killed and cut into pieces after a night of partying with Sifrit and his wife, Erika, in Ocean City, Md.
She was convicted of first-degree murder last month for Ford’s death and second-degree murder in Crutchley’s killing. She faces a maximum sentence of life in prison plus 45 years when she is sentenced Aug. 14.
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