Columbia man gets 30-year prison sentence for murder

Columbia man pleads guilty to strangling his girlfriend and endangering her child

Jeffrey Skaggs will spend 30 years for murder and seven years for child endangerment.

Columbia man gets 30-year prison sentence for murder

COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ) A Columbia man was sentenced to 30 years in state prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to a Christmas 2023 murder. Jeffrey E. Skaggs pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and child endangerment before Judge Brouck Jacobs. Jacbos sentenced Skaggs to 30 years in prison for murder and seven years for child endangerment. The sentences will be served concurrently. Skaggs will receive credit for time served. Skaggs was charged i…

UPDATE: Columbia man who admits strangling his girlfriend to death on Christmas Day 2023 sentenced to 30 years in prison

A Columbia man with a lengthy criminal record has been sentenced to 30 years in prison, after admitting he killed his girlfriend on Christmas Day 2023. 40-year-old Jeffrey Skaggs has pleaded guilty to second degree murder and endangering the welfare of a child. Boone County Circuit Judge Brouck Jacobs sentences Skaggs to 30 years. Court documents say the 41-year-old woman was strangled to death while she was holding her one-year-old child. The h…

Columbia man sentenced to 30 years for 2023 Christmas murder

A Columbia man was sentenced to 37 years in state prison on Friday after pleading guilty to a 2023 murder.