Mo. woman sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping 5-year-old Kansas girl

Mo. woman sentenced for kidnapping of Kansas girl

KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A 43-year-old Missouri woman who already has been sentenced to nine consecutive life sentences for a 2006 crime spree has been given another one.

Dena Riley of Independence, Mo., pleaded guilty in federal court in June to kidnapping a 5-year-old southeast Kansas girl while Riley and her boyfriend were wanted for murder in Missouri. On Monday, she was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Kansas to life in prison without parole.

Authorities said Riley and her boyfriend, Richard Davis, were on the run when they took the little girl from her home in Arcadia, Kan.

Riley was sentenced earlier to life without parole in the videotaped slaying of 41-year-old Marsha Spicer, plus eight additional life sentences and 239 years in prison for 25 other counts.