A man found guilty in December for killing and cutting up his drinking buddy in 2007 received a 91-year sentence Friday.
Judge Jack Smith sentenced Elmer Seetot, 25, to serve a flat 90 years for the murder and one year for tampering with evidence. Seetot could be eligible for his first appearance before a parole board in June 2041.
Seetot bludgeoned Terry Jackson and dismembered his body with a saw and knives. Then he bagged the pieces and put them in his grandmother's freezer.
Through his trial, Seetot claimed not to remember the killing. His defense attorney, Andrew Lambert, said Friday the death was the result of a "drunk fight." Lambert said during the trial that Seetot was too drunk during a three-day bender to comprehend what happened.
In asking for a maximum 99-year sentence for the murder, prosecutor Gustaf Olson argued that Seetot fit the legal definition of a "worst offender."
"You're never going to forget, when you walk a murder scene and you see it in the light and then turn the lights off and see the black light and see the blood spatters on the walls and in the bathtub and the bloody fingerprints on a freezer," Olson said after the sentencing. "You're never going to get those images out of your mind. It was like a scene out of a Hollywood slasher film when I walked that crime scene."
At the Friday sentencing hearing, Seetot continued to deny that he killed Jackson.
Olson relayed Seetot's words: "I did not kill Terry, I did not do that," Seetot told the court.
A pre-sentence report by probation officer Anastasia Kiefer pointed out Seetot's history, which included a lack of empathy toward past victims, severe anger issues, a tendency to rationalize criminal behavior, long-term drug and alcohol abuse, and "a strong fetish for knives," Olson said.
Seetot's prior offenses included 11 Class A misdemeanors and a lengthy juvenile record that the judge called "a foreshadowing of what was to come."
While Friday's sentence brings the murder case to a close, Seetot still has pending charges that could land him another lifetime in prison: 22 counts of first-degree sexual assault and three counts of second-degree sexual assault.
An inmate at Anchorage Correctional Complex accused Seetot of raping him in 2008.
A pre-trial conference is set for June in that case.
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By CASEY GROVE
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