March 28, 2024

Man convicted of killing girlfriend gets 40 years

VINTON — A Benton County man convicted of killing his girlfriend has been given 40 years in prison.

David Miller was sentenced Thursday in Vinton. He’d been convicted in September of two counts of theft and voluntary manslaughter in the Oct. 25, 2015, death of 25-year-old Sabrina Janish, of Shellsburg.

Officers found Janish’s body next to a stolen truck at Miller’s mobile home north of Shellsburg. An autopsy showed she had been stabbed several times and strangled.