Echo Lake murderer sent to prison for 110 years

The Kalispell man convicted of stabbing a man 25 times and stashing the body under a log at Echo Lake in May was sentenced Tuesday to 110 years in Montana State Prison and 45 years without the eligibility of parole. Robert Matthew Wittal, 29, was found guilty by a jury in October of the deliberate homicide of Wade Rautio, 35.