KANSAS CITY — A woman serving a life prison sentence for killing a man who was trying to end an extra-marital affair with her has died in prison.
According to the Missouri Department of Corrections 74-year-old Connie Sanders-Ford, a resident of the Chillicothe women’s prison, was pronounced dead just before 5a.m. Monday of what appears to be natural causes.
In March of 2015, Sanders-Ford fatally shot John Jordon, 58, just inside the door of his home in Granby, Missouri. Jordan's wife, Patricia, and her two children testified at the trial about the victim's desire to end the affair and save his marriage.
Patricia Jordan testified that Sanders-Ford burst into her home a month before the murder and informed her of the affair in an effort to destroy the marriage. In 2016, Circuit Judge Tim Perigo sentenced Sanders-Ford after her conviction for first-degree murder.
-The Associated Press contributed to this story