Man gets life without parole for power plant slaying
Posted August 23, 2016 7:00 am
BOONVILLE, Ind. (AP) - A southwestern Indiana man found guilty of the shooting death of a man at a power plant has been sentenced to life without parole.
A Warrick County judge on Tuesday sentenced 34-year-old Mathew McCallister after a jury convicted him of murder and conspiracy to commit murder in the Feb. 17, 2014, slaying of 35-year-old Joseph Nelson of Martinsville.
Nelson's body was found in a load of coal at the Alcoa Warrick Operations along the Ohio River just east of Evansville.
The state sought the life sentence because McCallister was on parole when the slaying occurred.
McCallister was one of four people convicted in connection with the slaying.
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