Maintenance Man Convicted of Murder

DAYTON, Ohio —  A maintenance supervisor at the Dayton Daily News was convicted Friday night of murdering his wife and burying her body in a concrete floor at the building where both of them worked.

Theodore Sinks, 49, was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison shortly after a jury of nine men and three women returned the guilty verdict. The panel had deliberated about eight hours.

Prosecutors said Sinks, who had been trying to dissolve his unhappy marriage, beat his wife, Judy, 44, with a blunt object on Nov. 20, 1987, strangled her with five loops of rope and, with the help of an unwitting subordinate, carted her body in a barrel to the newspaper building.

The body was found five months later embedded in the floor of a seventh-story utility room that Sinks frequented during the course of his job.