Life Sentence for Cleveland Man in Calculated Park Murder of Elderly Ex-Partner
CLEVELAND – A 23-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday for the premeditated murder of a 74-year-old man in a suburban Cleveland park last year. Viktor Marie Vendler will be eligible for parole after 21 years following a plea agreement in which Vendler admitted to aggravated murder and gross abuse of a corpse. The victim, Leroy Johnston, was found deceased on September 30 by a dog led off-trail by its hiking owners in Mill …