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Malik Bunch, 29, got 30 years for strangling Jéla Cooper during a botched burglary — but he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge, sparking outrage from her grieving mother, who called the deal too soft for murder. Bunch admitted he broke into her apartment to stop her from contacting his wife, then staged the scene to look like an alcohol-related overdose — but toxicology proved she was clean. His fingerprint was found on a wine bottle, his phone vanished, and he’d searched online about divorce and Indiana’s death penalty. The judge acknowledged the complexity of parenting adult children, and Bunch will serve 28 years plus 2 at a correctional center — with an appeal looming.

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