California Man Gets 40 Years in Wife’s Death; Her Body Was Never Found

California Man Gets 40 Years in Wife’s Death; Her Body Was Never Found
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LOS ANGELES—A Covina man who was a civilian employee for U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Long Beach was sentenced Friday to 40 years behind bars for kidnapping his wife in an attack that resulted in her death.

Eddy Reyes, 39, who lived with his wife in Santa Ana before she vanished eight years ago, pleaded guilty in April in downtown Los Angeles to one federal count of kidnapping resulting in death.

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