RHINELANDER, Wis. — A former Hays teenager was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the second-degree murders of her mother and step-father.

The sentencing of Ashlee Martinson, 18, was handed down Friday. She had pleaded guilty as part of a plea deal in March.

Martinson lived for a time in Hays. Her mother, Jennifer Ayers, was a New Jersey native who grew up in Hays and graduated from Hays High School and Fort Hays State University.

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