Kentucky killer's heartless murder of her on-and-off again boyfriend was as “cold-blooded an act” as he’s ever seen, a judge said on Friday.
Campbell County Circuit Judge Fred A. Stine sentenced the 24-year-old Shayna Hubers to 40 years in prison after a day-long hearing saw testimony from her medical experts, friends and a lone pastor, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer.
The testimony didn’t change Stine’s opinion of the former college student, who boasted about killing Ryan Poston to police inside an interrogation room shortly after his October 2012 death.
“I never heard a word or saw a look (from you) that said, ‘I’m sorry,’” Stine told Hubers at Friday’s hearing.
A jury found Hubers guilty in April of killing the 29-year-old attorney the night he was supposed to meet Audrey Bolte, Miss Ohio USA 2012, for drinks. He planned to break up with Hubers again and this time for good, Poston told his family shortly before his death.
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Shayna Hubers, pictured smiling with the ex-boyfriend she killed, Ryan Poston, was sentenced Friday to 40 years in prison.
She instead shot Poston six times at his Highland Heights apartment.
Psychologist Ed Connor and Campbell Commonwealth Attorney Michelle Snodgrass painted a grim characterization of Hubers during Friday’s hearing, the Enquirer detailed.
She has consistently shown signs of a narcissistic personality and “extreme difficulty with rejection,” Connor explained — and not just basing his analysis on her murderous actions.
“She is not the person that she wants everyone to believe she is,” Snodgrass told Stine.
ISAAC BREKKEN/GETTY IMAGESThe victim, Ryan Poston, was supposed to meet Audrey Bolte, pictured, who was also Miss Ohio USA 2012, for drinks the night of his death.
Snodgrass detailed an array of text messages obtained from Hubers’ phone leading up to Poston’s death and alleged she had been cheating on him all along.
“I’m in love with Patrick,” she told a friend.
In another message, Hubers said she contracted a sexually transmitted infection.
“Who knows who I got it from, right?” Hubers wrote.
