St. Louis — Purcell Hartson just shook his head and chuckled Friday as a judge called him a leech.

"I know you think this is funny," said St. Louis Circuit Judge John Garvey. "You killed a wonderful woman, and you don't care. You deserve every year you are going to get."

With that, Garvey handed Hartson a sentence of life in prison plus 20 years in the death of 70-year-old woman who was crushed when Hartson crashed a stolen SUV through her house in 2005.

A jury convicted Hartson, 36, of Dellwood, in September of second-degree murder in the death of Sallie Lou Henderson.

According to testimony, Hartson carjacked the SUV minutes before the crash and used it to chase his ex-girlfriend in another vehicle because he saw her with another man.

Hartson rammed his ex-girlfriend's Toyota so hard that they both went out of control and crashed into Henderson's home on March 1, 2005, officials said.

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