MySpace killer gets life in prison

Published May 17, 2007 4:00am ET



A former University of Maryland, Baltimore County, student was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for murdering a woman he met on MySpace.com and to an additional life sentence for raping her first.

“It was a bad date,” Circuit Judge Mickey Norman told John Gaumer, 23. “Two people didn?t click. You could have just taken her home, watched her walk to her door and never made contact with her again. Instead, you brutalized her.”

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