March 19, 2010
Ind. man sentenced for 1985 killing of Calif. mom
The Associated PressAn Indiana man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in California prison for the 1985 murder of a single mother in Anaheim.
Wendell Patrick Lemond of Indianapolis was found guilty in July of the first-degree murder of 20-year-old Catherine Tameny, and on Friday was sentenced in a Santa Ana courtroom.
On Aug. 5, 1985, Tameny was sexually assaulted and killed in her apartment while her 2-year-old son was bound and left in another room. The child, Nick Medina, gave a statement to the court before Friday's sentencing, saying Lemond deprived him of growing up with a mother.
Detectives used DNA to link Lemond to the murder in 2007.
Lemond had worked with the victim.