A Maryland man will be spending the rest of his behind bars for the death and dismemberment of a beloved elementary school teacher who was attacked while she was out on a walk one summer night.

In June, Harold Francis Landon III, 34, was convicted by a jury of his peers in Prince George's County on one count of murder in the first degree for the July 29, 2023, death of Mariame Toure Sylla, 59, Law&Crime previously reported .

On Friday, 7th Judicial Circuit Court Judge Carol Coderre sentenced Landon to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

The underlying incident occurred somewhere in or near Schrom Hills Park in Greenbelt – a medium-sized suburb of the broader Washington, D.C., metro area. On the night in question, Sylla went out for a walk at the park right near her home an

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