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The man who murdered three members of a Hoffman Estates family and seriously wounded another in a knife attack was sentenced to three life sentences without parole plus an additional 60 years.
Howard, who was convicted of first-degree murder and attempted murder in June, faced a mandatory life sentence in the stabbing deaths of Laura Engelhardt, 18; her father Alan Engelhardt, 57; and her grandmother Marlene Gacek, 73; and the attack on Laura’s mother, Shelly Engelhardt, who survived with serious injuries.
With last month's verdict, jurors, who spent less than two hours deliberating, rejected Howard’s claims that he was insane when he killed three members of his fiancee’s family in 2009.
