- ....Breaking News...There will be NAHL hockey in Wenatchee next season...The Greater Wenatchee Regional Public Facilities District approves lease with the owner of the Fresno Monsters...Team will play in the Town Toyota Center this fall and be called the Wenatchee Wild ...

10/27/12 Cold Case Trial



OKANOGAN, Wash. (AP) - A 50-year-old Omak man has been sentenced to life in prison for the rape and murder of a 51 year-old woman nearly 15 years ago.  An Okanogan County jury convicted Kelly Small last month of the first-degree murder of Sandy Bauer, who was strangled in her Omak apartment in 1998. A separate jury earlier found him guilty of raping a 75-year-old Omak woman in 2006.  The Wenatchee World says Small on Friday received a life sentence for murder, and 10 years and 3 months for Bauer's rape. Small previously had been sentenced to nearly 32 years in prison for the 2006 rape.  Bauer's case went unsolved until Omak police matched DNA found during the 2006 rape with hairs found in Bauer's apartment. Police re-interviewed people initially questioned in Bauer's case.


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