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Willis will be sentenced Monday for kidnapping & slaying Heeringa in 2013

Posted at 10:20 AM, Jun 17, 2018
and last updated 2018-06-18 08:17:18-04

MUSKEGON, Mich. -- Jeffrey Willis is scheduled to be sentenced Monday morning for abducting and killing convenience store clerk Jessica Heeringa.

The sentencing is set for 9:15 a.m. in Muskegon County Circuit Court.

Willis will receive a mandatory sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

On May 16, jurors deliberated for less than two hours before finding him guilty of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the April 2013 kidnapping and death of Heeringa, a clerk at the ExxonMobil gas station in Norton Shores.

Willis also is expected to stand trial later on for the 2016 attempted kidnapping of a teenager.

He is already serving a life sentence for the 2014 murder of jogger Rebekah Bletsch.

Willis is now 48 and is incarcerated at the Bellamy Creek Correctional Facility in Ionia.

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