A jury sentenced Alan Champagne to death on Wednesday.
Champagne, 46, was convicted of first- and second-degree murder in the 2011deaths of Brandi Nicole Hoffner and Philmon Tapaha. Their bodies were buried in the backyard of Champagne's mother's home, but were not discovered until 2013 when a landscaper discovered the buried bodies.
A jury sentenced Alan Champagne to death for 1st degree murder & 24 yrs in prison for 2nd degree murder, kidnapping & concealing a dead body
— MC Superior Court (@courtpio) September 6, 2017
He was also convicted of kidnapping and abandoning or concealing a body.
Investigators say Champagne shot Tapaha and choked Hoffner to death, put their bodies in a box, poured in lame to help with decomposition and buried it at his mother's home.
A jury sentenced him to death on the first-degree murder charge and 24 years in prison for second-degree murder.
According to an Associated Press article, a motive for the murders is not known, but Champagne was reportedly high on meth before the killings.
