A Wilkie man has been sentence after killing his estranged wife.
Wesley Veit, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Heidi Veit.
Heidi’s body was found last March on a rural property near Wilkie. She died from a gunshot wound. She was a mother of two boys and worked as an education assistant at McLurg High School.
Court head the couple were in the process of getting a divorce .
Veit was given a life sentence with no eligibility for parole for at least 18 years.
