Ohio mother-in-law pleads guilty in septic-tank death

Associated Press

LOGAN, Ohio

The mother-in-law of a woman found strangled in a septic tank pleaded guilty on Thursday to all charges related to her death and was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.

Hocking County prosecutor Laina Fetherolf said attorneys had reached a plea deal with Sandra Inman, who had pointed authorities to her daughter-in-law’s body.

Inman, 47, pleaded guilty to charges of murder, kidnapping, tampering with evidence and gross abuse of a corpse.

Summer Inman, 25, was abducted in Logan on March 22, 2011, then was strangled with a zip tie and was dumped in a septic tank behind a church.