MILWAUKEE (WITI) -- 42-year-old Darrick Bennett was sentenced to 35 years in prison plus ten years of extended supervision in a Milwaukee County court on Friday afternoon, February 8th.
Bennett pleaded guilty in November 2012 to an amended charge of first-degree reckless homicide in the beating and strangling death of his live-in girlfriend, 30-year-old Carmen Santana.
Santana was found dead in an apartment near 61st and Medford in Milwaukee on September 13, 2011. It wasn’t until about four days later that police caught up with and arrested Bennett.
People who knew Santana said she had been repeatedly beaten by Bennett for roughly two years leading up to her death.
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