Conner Scott will serve 37 years in the Illinois Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to first degree murder in the death of Kaylyn Whitaker.
On Halloween night 2014, 20-year-old Kaylyn Whitaker was found with a gunshot wound to the head in Scott’s rural Martinsville, Ill. home.
At the time, her death appeared to be a suicide, but it was later ruled a homicide.
The case grew cold for more than four years, until Scott, who was Whitaker’s boyfriend at the time of her death, walked into a Danville, Indiana police station Feb. 24 and confessed to the crime.
Scott will be required to serve 100 percent of the 37-year sentence, followed by three years of parole.
