HOULTON (AP) — A Maine man convicted of killing two adults and a 10-year-old boy is going to prison for life.
Thayne Ormsby was given three life sentences — one for each murder conviction — Thursday in Aroostook County Superior Court in Houlton. Justice E. Allen Hunter added a 15-year sentence on top of the life sentences for Ormsby’s arson conviction.
Ormsby was convicted in April in the 2010 stabbing deaths of 55-year-old Jeffrey Ryan, his 10-year-old son Jesse, and family friend Jason Dehahn at Ryan’s home in the small northern Maine town of Amity. The jury rejected Ormsby’s insanity defense.
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