Former Alaskan Steven Michael Wilson was sentenced in the 5th Circuit Court in Kauai on Thursday for the April 2013 stabbing death of 21-year-old Kendra Lewis.

27-year-old Wilson was sentenced to life in prison for the gruesome murder of the Alaska woman that traveled with him to Hawaii despite the urging of her family.

Lewis’s body was discovered on April 26th, 2013 in the condominium that the two shared after she had been dead for approximately two weeks. She was discovered by a room mate after a terrible odor and flies alerted him to Wilson’s room.

Lewis confessed to stabbing Lewis to death after they had gotten into an argument because Lewis had told Wilson that she was going to leave him. Wilson stabbed Lewis multiple times, according to investigators, Lewis had been stabbed twice in the abdomen, in the voice box, in her neck, legs,left arm, chest and in the cheek.

After killing Lewis, Wilson would leave the condo and go on a prolonged drug binge before being arrested for Lewis’s death on May 1st. Wilson confessed to the killing to arresting officers.

Wilson pleaded guilty to the charges in May of this year in order to avoid a trial.

The prosecuting attorneys are pushing for a sentence of 40 years before Wilson will be eligible for parole in his life sentence, meaning that Wilson would be 67-years-old before ever possibly being released.

Lewis’s mother and sister traveled to Hawaii to attend the sentencing.

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