By ALICIA GALLEGOS
Tribune Staff Writer
SOUTH BEND — A 25-year-old man was sentenced today to more than five decades behind bars for the brutal killing of his girlfriend.
A jury convicted Julius Anderson of murder in December for the death of 29-year-old Dawn Brooks. Jurors acquitted Anderson of two counts of arson.
The battered body of Brooks was found in her Kendall Street home in South Bend in April 2009. She had been beaten, stabbed and left to die in a burning home, according to past reports.
Calling the brutality of the offense "chilling," St. Joseph Superior Court Judge Jane Woodward Miller sentenced Anderson to 55 years in prison at a hearing today.
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