Isanti Hockey Dad Sentenced to Life in Prison for 1993 Cold Case Murder
Jury Finds Westrom Guilty of Premeditated Murder in Killing of Jeanne Ann Childs
Convicted in late August, Westrom will spend the rest of his life behind bars
MINNEAPOLIS -- An Isanti hockey dad convicted in the brutal cold-case murder of a 35-year-old woman learned his sentence in court on Friday morning. Jerry Westrom, 56, was found guilty of first-degree premeditated murder and second-degree intentional murder in the 1993 killing of Jeanne Ann Childs.
Westrom was convicted in late August after a jury deliberated for less than two full days. Childs' body was found in the trunk of her car in a Minneapolis alley in July 1993. She had been stabbed multiple times.
Hennepin County District Court Judge Jay Quam sentenced Westrom to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Westrom will serve his sentence at the Minnesota Correctional Facility in St. Cloud.
Westrom's conviction is the culmination of a decades-long investigation into Child's murder. The case went cold for many years, but detectives reopened the investigation in 2018 after receiving new information.
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