Update...
New developments tonight on the sentencing of Eve Nance, you'll recall that Nance was found guilty of killing her husband back in 2013 earlier this year. Today a Fond du Lac county judge sentenced her to life in prison for the murder and hiding of Timothy Nance, her husband. NBC26 was there and shares more details of today's sentencing.
Today prosecutors asked for no possibility of parole ever for Nance. They argued the crime was no accident and Timothy Nance was executed in cold blood by his wife. But some friends and family think Eve Nance was given a sentence today that will give her and her daughter hope for the future.
Eve Nance had a lot of support in her corner at the Fond du Lac Courthouse today. Even though there were mixed feelings about her sentence.
"I mean I feel she should have been punished for what she did. I don't feel by any means that it was ok," says Jennifer Barnes a family friend of Nance’s.
Though many here were torn between what justice would mean or amount to for a woman facing life for the man she killed, a proper sentence meant mixed emotions for some.
"Just being friends with both of them I just… I don’t even know," adds Barnes.
Prosecutors asked the option for eventual parole to be taken off the table of options for Nance.
"We felt that was an appropriate recommendation given all of the circumstances," says District Attorney Eric Toney.
But the judge ruled in 25 years, Nance can make her case to the courts to possibly be released under supervision.
"She'll have to petition the court for that release. It's not a given that she would be released after she serves that time," adds Toney.
"I think even 25. I think... I don't know. I just think it's a lot," says Barnes.
The judge did say Nance's credibility was suspect. After all she killed and then hid her husband’s body and then lied to family and authorities about it. But her previous criminal record was clean and she was believed to have suffered from battered person’s syndrome. She was a product of physical and psychological abuse according to the judge.
"You know multiple years of going through things… that sometimes… maybe a person just snaps," adds Barnes.
The judge also said this could have been the ultimate result of a life of that sort of abuse. Adding that the court would punish evil by giving a no parole option, but that wasn’t the sentence handed down.
Eve Nance will be 62 years old when she is able to file a petition to be released from jail and put under probation.
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Eve Nance, convicted of killing her husband, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of extended supervision after that time is served.
Nance was convicted in January of killing Timothy Nance who's body was discovered in a wooded area just north of Milwaukee on Thanksgiving Day 2013.
Today's sentence included five years for hiding the body.
