Ex-Boyfriend Draws Life Term for Killing Couple
<i> Associated Press</i>
SEATTLE —
A businessman was sentenced Monday to life in prison for the stabbing deaths of his former girlfriend and a television humorist he believed was having an affair with her.
William Pawlyk, a onetime manager of a Boeing Co. subsidiary, was convicted of aggravated first-degree murder on July 2. Larry Sturholm, who commented on current events on a nightly TV news program, and Debra Sweiger, a nurse, were killed July 31, 1989, in her home.
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