ALABAMA – A man’s family had some harsh words for him on Thursday as he was sentenced for his part in his ex-wife’s 2017 murder.
‘F–k you, I hope you rot,’ one of Jason Starr’s daughters told him.
Another daughter told Jason, ‘You are useless,’ according to the local news outlet’s report of the sentencing hearing, published on Friday.
Details of what happened
Jason, 50, and his brother Darrin Starr were sentenced to life in prison by a federal judge on Thursday after being found guilty of murdering Jason’s ex-wife Sara Starr in 2017.
There is no parole in the federal court system.The Ledger also noted that the judge ordered Jason to pay a fine of $25,000.
It was a murder-for-hire crime
The brothers were convicted by a jury in their murder-for-hire scheme in September 2023.
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Why he killed her
A jury found the men guilty of conspiring to kill Sara, a 38-year-old Harrand Creek Elementary School teacher and mother of four, because Jason didn’t want to pay her the money she was awarded by the court in their divorce.
Jason, of Coffee Springs, Ala., hired his brother Darin, of Lakehills, Texas, to kill Sara.
What investigation reveals
Authorities said that Jason gave his brother a motorcycle worth about $2,600 sometime between September and November 2017.
Sara was killed by two point-blank gunshots in the early morning hours of Nov. 27, 2017, as she exited her house in Chancellor on her way to work.
‘They caused harm that rippled throughout the community,’ said acting U.S. Attorney Johnathan S. Ross of the Starr brothers in comments after the sentencing.
