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40- to 80-year term in love-triangle murder

A Newtown Square man was sentenced Monday to 40 to 80 years in prison in the murder of the husband of a woman with whom he was having an affair. Stephen Shappell, 24, had pleaded guilty earlier in Chester County to third-degree murder in the June 2010 bludgeoning death of Kevin Mengel, 33. - AP

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A Newtown Square man was sentenced Monday to 40 to 80 years in prison in the murder of the husband of a woman with whom he was having an affair. Stephen Shappell, 24, had pleaded guilty earlier in Chester County to third-degree murder in the June 2010 bludgeoning death of Kevin Mengel, 33. - AP