CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A man convicted earlier this year for the 2012 rape and beating death of a suburban St. Louis woman has been sentenced to two life terms in prison.
Kavion Thomas, 30, was sentenced Friday for the death of 61-year-old Patti Ann Harvill. Her battered and bloody body was found in a hallway of her Berkeley home by her sister on April 25, 2012.
A jury found Thomas guilty in January of second-degree murder and rape. Thomas had been serving a prison term for manslaughter in Kentucky when he was charged in 2017 in Harvill’s death.
Prosecutors said Thomas' DNA was found on her body and in droplets of blood at the home. Police found no evidence of a break-in, and no valuables were taken.