{"id":1651,"date":"2012-08-01T10:55:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T15:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2012-08-01T11:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T16:00:49","slug":"wacht-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-no-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=1651","title":{"rendered":"Wacht Sentenced To Life In Prison, No Parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COOPERSTO<a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/WachtDaniel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1652\" title=\"WachtDaniel\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/WachtDaniel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>WN, N.D. (AP Aug 1, 2012)\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 A North Dakota man convicted of shooting and beheading a North Dakota State University researcher will spend the rest of his life behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Judge James Hovey sentenced Daniel Wacht on Wednesday to life in prison with no parole.<\/p>\n<p>Wacht&#8217;s attorney had asked for life with the possibility of parole. Wacht declined to speak at the sentencing.<\/p>\n<p>A jury in April found Wacht guilty of murder in the death of 54-year-old Kurt Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors say Wacht killed Johnson to prove his worth to a white supremacist group.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Johnson was last seen alive outside a Cooperstown bar on New Year&#8217;s Eve 2010.<\/p>\n<p>His severed head was found in a crawl space in Wacht&#8217;s basement. His body has not been found.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Korwin Johnson says his brother&#8217;s killing was a &#8220;senseless, brutal crime.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 COOPERSTOWN, N.D. (AP Aug 1, 2012)\u00a0\u00a0 &#8212;\u00a0 A North Dakota man convicted of shooting and beheading a North Dakota State University researcher will spend the rest of his life behind bars. Judge James Hovey sentenced Daniel Wacht on Wednesday to life in prison with no parole. Wacht&#8217;s attorney had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1652,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1651"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1651\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}