After confessing to killing three people and living inside an apartment with their bodies for days afterward, a man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Spencer McDonald, 32, pleaded guilty but mentally ill in July to three murders. His plea deal spared him a possible death sentence, and Judge Carli Kierny ordered a life-long prison term instead.

Chief Deputy District Attorney John Giordani told District Judge Carli Kierny that “although the sentence is quite great, it reflects the gravity of the situation.”

McDonald killed his grandmother, 80-year-old Dina Vail, her boyfriend, 43-year-old Andrew Graden, and 45-year-old Christopher Brassard, an apartment maintenance worker who attempted to check on Vail.

Police said McDonald lived with the bodies f

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