Nineteen-year-old Johnnie Sweet, convicted of first-degree murder in the 2010 killing of 18-year-old Latisha Frazier, was sentenced to 52 years in prison on Thursday.
On Aug. 2, 2010, six friends invited Frazier to an apartment where they told her they were having a social gathering. The friends, with ages ranging from 16 to 23, believed Frazier had stolen $900 from Sweet.
Frazier was lured into a bedroom of the apartment where Sweet and others, who Frazier believed were her friends, kicked, punched and stomped on her body. They bound her in duct tape and taped a pillowcase over her head so she could not scream.
The group then put her in a small, dark closet. Later the group discovered Frazier was dead.
Sweet and others brought Frazier into a bathtub and dismembered her body. That evening, they threw Frazier into a dumpster, and her body was never found. It is believed to be in one or two Virginia landfills.
Seven people were charged with various offenses and six former co-defendants have pleaded guilty.
