Man Sentenced For Double Murder
- {Union, West Virginia}...Seventy-one year old Gerald Richard Allison of Lindside was sentenced Thursday in Monroe County Circuit Court to life with mercy for the first-degree murder of his stepdaughter, 42 year old Melissa Burks-Wills, and to 40 years for the second-degree murder of his wife, 65 year old Dorothy Burks-Masters. The sentences are consecutive. Allison will be eligible for parole on the life sentence in 15 years. He must begin serving the other sentence if he's granted parole. Allison would be eligible for parole in 10 years on that sentence. Police say Allison shot the women at their home on January 21, 2011.
