Ill. man to be sentenced for 1977 killing in Mo.

CLAYTON, Mo. -- Gregory Bowman spent nearly three decades in prison for two killings in Illinois before his conviction was overturned. Now, he's about to head back to prison 창€” and possibly death row 창€” for killing a Missouri teenager 32 years ago.

Bowman, of Belmont, Ill., was scheduled to be sentenced Friday in the 1977 killing of 16-year-old Velda Rumfelt in St. Louis County. The jury that convicted the 58-year-old Bowman in October recommended the death penalty.

Bowman was imprisoned 28 years for killing 14-year-old Elizabeth West and 21-year-old Ruth Ann Jany in separate cases in Belleville, Ill., in 1978.

The convictions were thrown out after a sheriff's deputy admitted to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Bowman had been tricked into confessing.