A 65-year-old California convict who pleaded guilty to two New England cold cases dating back to the 1980s on Tuesday will spend the rest of his life in prison in Vermont, according to the Berkshire County District Attorney’s Office.

David Allen Morrison pleaded guilty to the 1981 kidnapping of then-15-year-old Laura Sheridan in Lanesborough, Massachusetts, in Berkshire County Superior Court, the district attorney’s office said previously. He also pleaded guilty to the 1986 murder of 32-year-old Sarah Hunter in Bennington County, Vermont, Tuesday afternoon.

Morrison has been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole for Hunter’s murder, and has waived his right to appeal the sentence, the district attorney’s office said in a press release Wednesday. He will serve an existing

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