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Saturday, November 04, 2006
CROWN POINT, Ind. — A man charged with the killings of five women and two girls more than a decade ago was sentenced to 245 years in prison for three of the killings and the rape of a 13-year-old girl.
Eugene Britt, who turns 49 on Saturday, will serve his 245-year sentence at the same time with his sentence of life in prison plus 100 years for the 1995 slaying of an 8-year-old girl.
Britt pleaded guilty but mentally ill on Oct. 6 to murder in the perpetration of rape in the deaths of Nakita Moore, 14; Tonya Dunlap, 24, and Maxine Walker, 41, and in the rape of a 13-year-old Gary girl.
He had also admitted to killing and raping three other women — Betty Askew, 50; Michelle Burns, 27, and Deborah McHenry, 41 — but charges in those deaths were dropped in the plea agreement, under which he waived his right to appeal.
In November 1995, Britt was arrested in the slaying of 8-year-old Sarah Lynn Paulsen in Porter County. In a confession to police in Paulsen's August 1995 death, he admitted to a total of nine killings, although but no charges were ever filed in two of the cases.
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