A little more than two months after being convicted in the double homicide of her father and his longtime companion at his Surf City bayfront home, a Pennsylvania woman was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences in a New Jersey state prison.
Sherry Lee Heffernan, 57, of Landenberg, Pa., learned her fate when she appeared before Ocean County Superior Court Judge Kimarie Rahill on May 10. A jury found Heffernan guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of purposely or knowingly causing the death of her father, John Enders, and Francoise Pity on March 1, following a monthlong trial.
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