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Boruch to be sentenced this afternoon

Monday, January 23, 2012

The Wausau man convicted of killing his mother and staging her drowning will be sentenced this afternoon.

Lincoln County Judge Glenn Hartley will sentence Chase Boruch to life in prison at 2:30pm. Hartley must decide whether Boruch will be eligible for release on extended supervision at some point after serving 20 years.

Boruch testified during his trial that he found his mother dead at her house and staged her drowning to cash in on an opportunity to collect her life insurance. A jury deliberated for 3 hours before finding him guilty.

He wrote in a letter from jail that he must now live with the fact that he killed his mother. He wrote, "It may be impossible to atone for such depraved actions; I recognize that I will always be guilty of crimes against humanity.

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