DeLand man gets life in prison for killing girlfriend, dumping body in Lake County

Volusia County, Fla. — A DeLand man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for beating and strangling his girlfriend.

A jury of four men and two women took more than two hours to find Khambrel Hadley, 23, guilty of first-degree murder for killing Alyssa Oakes, 19, in July 2013.

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Prosecutors said that after Hadley killed her, he put her body in the pantry and turned down the air conditioner until he could steal a friend's car to dump her body.

Hadley's mother called 911 to report that her son admitted to killing Oakes and dumping her body in a wooded area in Sorrento.

Circuit Judge Terence Perkins sentenced Hadley to the mandatory life sentence. He also got five years on the car theft.

The Associated Press contributed to this report. 

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