Illegal immigrant get life in prison for killing woman, 83 A 38-year-old illegal immigrant who with his cousin burned an 83-year-old Wheaton woman to death in an attempt to cover up a check fraud was sentenced to life without parole Tuesday.
Jose Alvarado and his cousin were convicted of killing Lila Meizell. The incident took place in November 2008, just weeks after the men added a zero to a $120 check Meizell had given them for landscape work.
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