A judge on Tuesday imposed a 38-year prison sentence on a New Hampshire man convicted of strangling a Maine nursing student who had broken off her engagement to him, then burying her body on his father’s property in northern New Hampshire.
In imposing the sentence, Justice G. Arthur Brennan rejected tearful pleas from the several of the victim’s family members who sought a life sentence for Jason Twardus of Rochester, N.H., who was convicted of murdering 30-year-old Kelly Gorham in 2007.