OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — A Kansas man has been sentenced to life in prison for severely beating a woman in 2016 after she refused to have sex with him and then leaving her to die in a wooded area.
The Kansas City Star reports that 26-year-old Korrey Raine White Rinke won’t be eligible for parole for 25 years under the sentence ordered Thursday for first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping in the death of 46-year-old Julianna Pappas of Overland Park. He also was ordered to register as a sex offender and pay more than $15,000 in restitution.
Prosecutors initially planned to seek the death sentence and charged him with capital murder and rape.
