Article: Bangor man gets 50-year sentence in murder over drug money

ELLSWORTH - The sentence for convicted murderer John J. Turner came down Tuesday like a heavy mallet: 50 years.

For the family of Tad Howard, the victim of Turner's crime, it was the final chapter in a sad story.

"We're glad that the process has come to an end," Howard's father, Dale Howard, said on the steps of the Hancock County Superior Courthouse, minutes after Justice Kevin Cuddy announced the sentence.

"We had hoped for longer, but when someone asked before what I thought an appropriate sentence would be, I said 'as long as I'm not alive when he gets out.'"

A Hancock County jury found Turner, 35, of Bangor guilty of murder in May, culminating a three-day trial that revealed Turner and ...

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