AP/Lang
11/23/19
A Tipton grandmother convicted of the 1992 killing of her former boyfriend near West Liberty has been sentenced to 50 years in prison, which was the maximum allowed.
The Muscatine Journal reports that 56-year-old Annette Cahill showed no emotion when she was sentenced Friday.
Following a mistrial earlier this year, Cahill was convicted in September of second-degree murder in the beating death of 22-year-old bartender Corey Wieneke. Her attorney says she plans to appeal.
Police have said Cahill had been in an intimate relationship with Wieneke and that they had a heated argument about his involvement with another woman. Wieneke was found dead on the floor of his bedroom in rural West Liberty in October 1992.
The murder weapon was an aluminum baseball bat that was found by a TV news crew later that day about a mile away from Wieneke’s home.
The case against Cahill relied on testimony from a woman who said she was nine years old when she overheard Cahill confess to killing Wieneke. Another witness said he saw Cahill burn bloody clothes outside her home two days after the murder. He didn’t initially report what he saw to police in 1992, telling jurors he was using drugs and driving illegally at the time and was not at a “good place” in his life.