A Pennsylvania man who "viciously" murdered his girlfriend with a hammer and then tried to conceal the crime has learned where he will spend the coming decades.

A Montgomery County jury took an hour and a half to find Michael Carey Jr., 47, guilty of first-degree murder and possessing an instrument of crime for killing 34-year-old Jessica Zipkin last November. Carey was then sentenced to life in prison without the possibility for parole, the mandatory sentence in Pennsylvania for first-degree murder convictions.

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Carey killed Zipkin at the home they shared in Perkiomen Township on the afternoon of Nov. 1, the Montgomery County District Attorney's Off

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