Life Sentence In Rape, Murder

WENATCHEE - A man who killed and sexually mutilated an East Wenatchee woman and her daughter will spend the rest of his life in prison after pleading guilty to their murders.

Jack Owen Spillman III also surprised authorities by confessing to the slaying of a 9-year-old Okanogan County girl.

Spillman, 27, pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree murder in the April 1995 deaths of Rita and Mandy Huffman. Spillman also pleaded guilty to the 1994 slaying of Penny Davis of Tonasket, a crime he was not formally charged with until yesterday.

Superior Court Judge Carol Wardell sentenced Spillman to life in prison without possibility of parole for the Huffman slayings and 45 1/2 years for killing the Tonasket child.