A West Hills woman has been sentenced to 20 years behind bars for her role in a nearly $3.9 million scheme that included forged power-of-attorney documents and the dismemberment and disposal of the body of one of her victims, prosecutors said Monday.
Caroline Herrling, 44, also known as Carrie Phenix, was sentenced late Friday by U.S. District Judge Maame Ewusi-Mensah Frimpong, who also ordered the defendant to pay $3.88 million in restitution, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.Herrling pleaded guilty last year in downtown Los Angeles to a federal charge of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.'This defendant's misconduct was both greedy and grotesque, causing profound pain to the victims and their loved ones,' U.S.
First they moved it to her apartment in West Los Angeles, where they attempted unsuccessfully to dissolve the body with chemicals. When that failed, Herrling and others dismembered the body, placed the pieces in vacuum-sealed bags and moved the body to the Bay Area, prosecutors said.Investigators determined that body parts were dumped into San Francisco Bay, with the help of a conspirator who owned a sailboat, prosecutors said. The remains have never been found.
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