A man who killed his wife, then barricaded himself inside his Chula Vista home and engaged in a nearly 24-hour standoff with police, was sentenced Wednesday to.
A man who killed his wife, then barricaded himself inside his Chula Vista home and engaged in a nearly 24-hour standoff with police, was sentenced Wednesday to 16 years to life in state prison.
Authorities said Billie Jean Partain, 74, was dead for up to three days inside her home before her husband John Partain held SWAT officers at bay outside it for nearly 24 hours