Topeka Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Murder

Associated Press - Fri 12:41 PM 02/15/2013

Prosecutors say she was jogging when Leftwich hit her with his car, put her in the trunk, tried to rape her and then threw her in a creek.

A Topeka man will spend the rest of his life in prison for trying to rape and then killing an 18-year-old jogger.

Twenty-one-year-old Dustin Leftwich was sentenced Friday to life in prison without parole in the death of Brenna Morgart. He pleaded guilty in January to seven charges, including capital murder and attempted rape.

Morgart died last May, less than a week after graduating from high school.

Prosecutors say she was jogging when Leftwich hit her with his car, put her in the trunk, tried to rape her and then threw her in a creek.

Leftwich also pleaded guilty to a separate attack a year earlier. He tried to run down a 14-year-old girl but she was able to escape.

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