COLUMBIA — Former Columbia Police Officer Steven Rios was sentenced to life in prison Friday for the second time in the 2004 murder of Jesse Valencia, an MU student with whom he was having an affair.
Rios gets life sentence for murder
Friday, January 16, 2009 | 3:08 p.m. CST;
updated 3:40 p.m. CST, Friday, January 16, 2009
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