Conn. man gets 70 years for kidnapping ex-wife
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Last Updated: 1:31 PM, January 4, 2012
HARTFORD, Conn. — A former advertising executive has been sentenced to 70 years in prison for kidnapping his ex-wife, holding her hostage for nearly a dozen hours and burning down the Connecticut home they once shared in 2009.
Sixty-two-year-old Richard Shenkman was sentenced Wednesday in Hartford Superior Court. A jury convicted him in October of 10 charges including kidnapping, arson, assault and threatening.
Shenkman abducted his ex-wife, Nancy Tyler, from downtown Hartford and forced her at gunpoint to drive to the home in South Windsor. The two were in the middle of divorce-related court hearings.
Richard Shenkman watches on as his attorney Hugh Keefe takes notes while final evidence and witnesses are presented by the State's Attorney's Office during Shenkman's trial in Hartford Superior Court.
Tyler testified that Shenkman threatened to kill her, fired a gun near her head and threatened to blow up the house. She escaped unharmed. He was arrested after running out of the burning house.
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