AIDEN HAYES - 2 yo - / Convicted: Jimmy Humphrey - Queens, NY

Monster gets 50 to life for strangling pregnant ex-girlfriend, leaving boy to die in fire

• By CHRISTINA CARREGA
  
• Last Updated: 6:33 PM, March 6, 2013
  
• Posted: 5:32 PM, March 6, 2013
  

A Queens judge threw the book today at a cold-blooded killer convicted
for strangling his pregnant ex-girlfriend to death and setting her
apartment ablaze – leaving her 2-year-old son to die in the fire.

"No matter how angry you were with Linda, that little boy had nothing to do
with your issues...you just left him...you left him to die a brutal
death," said Queens Supreme Court Justice Gregory Lasak before he
sentenced Jimmy Humphrey, 25, to 50 years to life for the murder of
Linda Anderson and Aiden Hayes.

Anderson, 25, was seven-months
pregnant with Humphrey's first child when they got into an argument
inside her St. Albans apartment on July 13, 2010.



Ellis Kaplan
Jimmy Humphrey during his sentencing at Queen's County court.

"The loss of my sister can never be fixed but at least we can live knowing
that justice was served," wrote Anderson's brothers Rob and Lamont Langs
in an impact statement read by prosecutor Brad Leventhal.

Firefighters responded to an anonymous call -- from Humphrey -- and discovered
Anderson's burned body with baby Aiden laying nearby, said District
Attorney Richard A. Brown about the "vicious murder."

Little Aiden died of smoke inhalation.

"Linda wasn't perfect, but she didn't deserve this brutality that sealed her
fate," read Leventhal, who recommended Humphrey receive the maximum 51
1/3 years to life for the "heinous crime."

"Instead of solving your problems like a human being, you let your rage take over and you
strangled the life out of her," said Judge Lasak who continued the
sentence by quoting the definition depraved indifference.

The jury convicted Humphrey of four-counts of second-degree murder, arson,
reckless endangerment and tampering with physical evidence following a
month-long trial, said Brown.

Humphrey faced Anderson's family in the courtroom and offered his condolences as well as apologizing to his
own family -- who attended every court appearance since his arrest.

"I'm going to pray for you," said Langs as he tearfully embraced Humphrey's inconsolable mother outside of court.

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