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December 13, 2006

Dr. Moon's killer gets maximum prison sentence

PROVIDENCE -- The man who admitted killing Dr. Alfred C. Moon in 1999 was sentenced to 60 years in prison with 40 to serve in Superior Court today.

Judge Mark A. Pfeiffer gave Angel Navarro, 38, the maximum prison sentence allowable under the terms of a plea bargain reached with prosecutors last month. Navarro pleaded no contest to second-degree murder.

Moon, 67, was murdered the night of Aug. 19, 1999.

Moon let Navarro into his home on Briarwood Road in Lincoln's Kirkbrae Estates section. Navarro beat him to death with a brass lamp. Moon's body was found in bed, his head so severely injured that he had to be identified by dental records.

Pfeiffer said that the viciousness of the attack was a key factor in his decision to levy the maximum penalty.

"No one knows what happened in that room," Pfeiffer said of the murder, "but nothing warranted the severity of that attack."

-- With reports from Journal staff writer John Hill

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