Judge Penny Ascarate

One would hope that someday you will become tortured by what you have done to Christine, Joe, Christine's daughter, and their families, but nothing I have seen suggests that you will.

The level of cruelty, calculation, and inhumanity in this case reflects something far deeper than anger or impulse.

It reflects evil, which is why I carry no burden and find no hesitation in sentencing you to life.

Did he tell you what he wanted to do?

What did he say?

The disregard of the life of your wife, someone you supposedly loved, is almost unfathomable.

scheming for months a master plan involving so many moving parts, including deception and manipulation, luring a completely innocent man into your deadly trap, continuing on after the murders without a care, and not once thinking of the impact on Christine's daughter, the unspoken tragic victim of your behavior.

You did not just take her mother from her, you placed her in the middle of the horror you created.

She is young now, but one day she will understand your true self, and she will understand what you took from her, which is everything.

The loss of her mother, who will never be a part of her life as she grows, the loss of her family and the security she lived under, all of this is lost based on your calculated and selfish behavior.

It is impossible to comprehend what Joseph Ryan experienced, seeing you enter the room, being shot in the head, blinded, hearing you instruct the co-defendant to shoot him again,

And Christine, to imagine her final thoughts as she initially thought you were there to save her from what she thought was a brutal attack, and then to see you over her, stabbing her again and again with a knife in her neck, her final realization that this was all you're doing, and in her final moments, thinking of her daughter.