Ex-Beauty Queen Gets Life Term for Jealousy Murder
A former dairy princess was sentenced Friday to life in prison, without possibility of parole until 2003, for strangling a former homecoming queen in a jealous rage over a farmer whom both women loved.
Lori Esker, 21, was convicted in June of first-degree intentional homicide for the September, 1989, slaying of Lisa Cihaski, 21, who was strangled with a belt in a car outside of a Wausau area motel.
Marathon County Circuit Judge Michael Hoover, after six hours of testimony and arguments from attorneys, decided not to set a parole eligibility date for Esker, so the former Marathon County dairy princess automatically becomes eligible for release after 13 years and four months in prison.
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