WACO, Texas (KWTX) - A Lacy Lakeview woman charged with breaking into her neighbor’s home in 2022, shooting her in the head and claiming she “drank her blood” was sentenced to 50 years in prison Monday.

Cynthia Ellen Ming, 54, who pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to the capital murder charge last week, changed her plea Monday morning to guilty to the lesser charge of murder and accepted a 50-year plea offer from the McLennan County District Attorney’s Office.

Prosecutors Duncan Widmann and Luke McCowan told Visiting Judge Roy Sparkman last week that the 55-year prison term Ming rejected would be their lowest and last offer.

Ming, who has a long history of mental disorders, pleaded guilty to killing her neighbor, 45-year-old Angie Melissa Moore Sept. 7, 2022, at Moore’s home in t

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