Kidnapper-Murderer Receives Life Sentence
From Times Wire Reports
A German law student who kidnapped and murdered the 11-year-old heir to a private banking dynasty was sentenced to life imprisonment. Magnus Gaefgen, 28, confessed to abducting Jakob von Metzler in September 2002 and killing him. He was arrested one day after collecting a ransom of about $1 million.
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