Couple’s slaying brings life term
A man has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the beating deaths of a couple in eastern Los Angeles County.
Lewis Hardin apologized to the victims’ family Monday, but he maintains he had nothing to do with the killings of 81-year-old Hubert Souther and his 79-year-old wife, Elizabeth, in their La Habra Heights home.
Hardin, 35, says he got mixed up with the wrong crowd.
Prosecutors say co-defendant Theodore Shove arranged for Hardin to kill the couple with a tire iron so he could take over Souther’s aerospace salvage business.
Shove was sentenced to death in March. Hardin was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder.
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