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FORMER TWENTYNINE PALMS MARINE SENTENCED TO 18 YEARS TO LIFE FOR MURDER

Curtis Krueger

A former Twentynine Palms Marine who was convicted last month of murdering a Murrieta man and burying his body in Joshua Tree National Park in 2018 was sentenced to 18 years to life in a Riverside County Court last week. Judge Kelley Hansen denied the defense attorneyā€™s request Thursday that Curtis Kruegerā€™s conviction be reduced to manslaughter from second-degree murder, saying that the jury got the verdict right. Krueger, 32, took the stand during his trial last month and said he followed his 29-year-old girlfriend, Ashlie Stapp, to the home of Henry Stange, 54, in May 2018. Stapp testified that she had sex with Stange in exchange for drugs. Krueger confronted Stange over allegedly sexually assaulting Stapp, and then beat him to death in Stangeā€™s garage. Stapp helped Krueger clean up the crime scene and bury the body in Joshua Tree National Park, where Stangeā€™s body was found about a week later. Ashlie Stapp pleaded guilty to helping Krueger evade arrest and was sentenced to 309 days in custody and three years probation.

Then-1st. Lt. Curtis Krueger, Combat Logistics Battalion 7, and his girlfriend, Ashlie Stapp, during the unitā€™s Jane Wayne Day aboard the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 10, 2018. Krueger killed Henry Stange, 54, of Murrieta two weeks after this photo was taken, and Stapp helped him bury the body in Joshua Tree National Park. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Margaret Gale)
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