SPOKANE — Tuesday was the first day the man who brutally stabbed two people 17 years ago and left them impaled with swords admitted to their families that he killed them.

And then 30 minutes later, when the judge overseeing his resentencing case denied his request for less prison time, the handcuffed Justin Crenshaw shouted, “Don’t forget to wipe your ass with that, your honor!”

Spokane County Superior Court Judge Dean Chuang had just resentenced Crenshaw to two consecutive life terms in prison without parole. It was the same sentence he received in 2010 after being convicted by a jury for the murders of 18-year-old Mead High School student Sarah Clark and 20-year-old guitar player and aspiring chef Tanner Pehl.

Chuang remarked earlier that even though Crenshaw apologized and took respo

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