A 71-year-old Wisconsin man will spend most if not all of the rest of his years behind bars for killing his wife after she "rambled" at him for hours and disposing of her body in a cornfield before expressing surprise that cops hadn't yet discovered her body.

Gordon Charles Laakso was sentenced Friday in St. Croix County Circuit Court to 14 years in prison and six years of probation should he get out before he dies. He pleaded guilty in September to first-degree reckless homicide. He was originally charged with first-degree intentional homicide , domestic abuse by strangulation and suffocation and hiding a corpse in the death of his wife, 68-year-old Mary Laakso in New Richmond, located in western Wisconsin.

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