South NJ Woman Sentenced In Boyfriend's Slaying
CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — A woman convicted in the stabbing death of her boyfriend at her parents' southern New Jersey home has been sentenced to 30 years in state prison without the chance for parole.
Paige Pfefferle also received a concurrent 5-year term for hindering her apprehension and weapons offenses when she was sentenced Friday. The 22-year-old Audubon Park woman will also have to serve five years of supervised release once she's freed from prison.
Camden County prosecutors say Pfefferle stabbed 21-year-old Matthew Hus in September 2010 as the couple argued over whether she should live at home or on the campus of La Salle University, where she was taking classes.
During the argument, Pfefferle pulled a knife from a butcher block in the kitchen and plunged it into Hus' chest. He was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
During the trial in September, prosecutors said Pfefferle repeatedly lied about how Hus was injured. They said she initially claimed she didn't know how he got hurt, then later admitted that he had been stabbed but claimed he walked into a knife she was holding by her hip.
An autopsy, though, determined Hus' fatal stab wound was caused by a downward thrust of a sharp object into his chest which punctured his aorta.
Pfefferle claimed during the trial that Hus had physically abused her, but friends said that she was the aggressor in the relationship and that Hus did not strike her.
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