An Indiana man who reportedly recorded a voicemail while murdering a man was sentenced to 85 years in prison Wednesday, according to court records.
Cody Allen Wade was convicted of murder on Aug. 3, according to the
sentencing order reviewed by PEOPLE. He was convicted of killing Carl Haviland, his mother’s boyfriend, in June 2020.
At the time, he was on parole for arson, the order said. In the sentencing order, Clay County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Pell wrote that Wade had stabbed Haviland multiple times in front of his mother. FOX 59 reported that before the incident, prosecutors said Wade left a voicemail on his mother’s phone but failed to hang up, meaning the entire incident was recorded. The outlet reports that the recording was played for the jury.
“The defendant repeatedly stabbed Carl Haviland not only in front of the defendant’s own mother but did so in spite of her efforts to physically prevent him from committing the crime,” wrote Judge Pell.
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