[url]http://www.kyw1060.com/news_story_detail.cfm?newsitemid=29535[/url]

A 34-year-old Gloucester City, NJ man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for causing the death of a 29-year-old Runnemede woman 7½ years ago.

Charles Heitzman admitted burying Patricia Parkin in a snow bank on a remote Runnemede hill. They were having rough sex and he thought he had strangled her.

[b]As it turned out, she was buried alive and froze to death.[/b]

Patricia's brother, John Parkin, is pleased the ordeal is finally over:


"We're very happy with the outcome. Of course we wish he would have gotten life, but that wasn't in the cards. So for 25 years he's off the street -- he's away from my family, he can't hurt anybody else."

Heitzman was sentenced for aggravated manslaughter and must serve at least 12 years before becoming eligible for parole.

Yikes....

Man, that's cold. Burying her in the snow bank.