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The woman involved in a murder-for-hire plot to kill her husband is has been sentenced to 18 years in prison. 47-year-old Cheryl Gasper pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in connection to the death of her husband Andie Gasper, back in 1994. Gasper paid her lover, 56-year-old Randall Knight, to muder her husband. Knight stabbed Andie Gasper in a shopping plaza in Yorkshire. He was sentenced earlier this month to 22 years in prison. fax from DA's office

An Ohio man has pleaded guilty to stabbing a Cattaraugus County man to death in 1994. 56-year-old Randall Knight entered his plea in federal court in Buffalo. As part of his plea agreement he implicated 47-year-old Cheryl Gasper, whose husband Andie he killed and left in a pickup truck behind the Ames department store in Yorkshire. Knight and Cheryl Gasper were having an affair at the time of the murder. Knight was tried and acquitted on charges brought by the state in 1995. Because of the acquittal, the state could not charge him again which is why, after the case was opened up again, he was charged in federal court with crossing state lines to commit murder. Cheryl Gasper has pleaded not guilty to her part in the murder but court papers indicate that she did confess.