A Central Florida woman has been sentenced to life in prison for killing another woman and then using her credit cards to buy thousands of dollars' worth of high-end electronics.
Florida Today reports that 37-year-old Jennifer Rose Trent was sentenced Wednesday after being convicted of first-degree murder, organized fraud and using the identification of a deceased person.
Authorities say 70-year-old Doris Johnston was killed in January 2015 after allowing Trent and her 7-year-old son to move in to her Barefoot Bay home. Investigators say Trent struck Johnston in the head and left her in a laundry room shed for several days before suffocating the older woman with a plastic trash bag.
Police began investigating after the victim's son couldn't reach her, and Trent told him that his mother had gone to Chicago.
