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University Daily Kansan, October 17, 1984
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CAMPUS AND AREA
Wichita man sentenced to prison for 2 murders
By United Press International
WICHTIA — Leroy Willcox, convicted last month of murdering a Haysville couple in 1979, was sentenced yesterday to 45 years to life for each slaying after a Sedgwick girl who he masterminded a gang of robbers.
"You have participated, if not masterminded, in a modern gang of robbers and drug dealers preying on society," Sedgwick County District Judge Keith Anderson told Willcox yesterday.
"Either as part of your criminal life style or to protect your perceived position among those people, in your gang and your life of crime, you have murdered two people, one of whom was innocent of all wrongdoing."
ANDERSON YESTERDAY or-
sessed Willcox, to serve
his family.
Willcox was convicted on Sept. 7 of two counts of second-degree murder in the strangulation of Donald Earl, 49 and his wife, Norma Earl, 43.
The couple's bodies were found in November 1983 buried in a shallow grave along a Kingman County road. Willcox was sentenced under the Kansas Habitual Criminal Act, giving Anderson the authority to give
double or triple the maximum sentence for Willcox's conviction of two counts of second-degree murder. he may be eligible for parole in 15 years.
Prosecutors claimed that Willcox and Robert Armstrong, S2, used battery cables to strangle the couple at Willcox's Wichita condominium. At the time of their arrest, the computer manager in a super computer manager in Wichita and Armstrong was working as a computer programmer in New York City.
PROSECUTORS SAID THE two men killed the Earls to prevent Donald Earl from telling federal authorities about Earl's, Armstrong's and Willcox's involvement in a crime ring that robbed banks, forged checks and sold drugs in Wichita during the late 1970s.
Willcox maintained his innocence throughout three trials. His first two trials before his conviction ended in June 2015, April 11 and the other on June 21.
Armstrong.was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the slayings. His second trial on those charges was in Judge 19 in Sedgwick County District Court.
Armstrong's first trial ended Sept. 20 in a mistrial declared after a jury was unable to reach a verdict.
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