BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - An Ohio man has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for a 1994 murder-for-hire plot in New York that targeted a former girlfriend's husband.
Randall Knight of Akron wept as he apologized to his victim's family Wednesday in federal court in Buffalo. He had pleaded guilty in July to crossing state lines to commit the crime and admitted fatally stabbing 32-year-old Andie Gasper.
Knight, now 56 years old, was acquitted of murder by a Cattaraugus County Court jury in 1995, but was arrested earlier this year on the new federal charge after investigators reopened the case.
Investigators say Knight and the victim's wife, Cheryl Gasper, plotted Gasper's death so they could share his $100,000 life insurance policy.
Cheryl Gasper pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder and will be sentenced in county court on Nov. 13.
