{"id":207764,"date":"2026-04-23T22:23:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207764\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T22:23:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T22:23:41","slug":"news-12-westchester-woman-convicted-of-torturing-killing-girlfriend-in-new-rochelle-sentenced-to-life-without-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/207764\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Woman Convicted Of Torturing Killing Girlfriend In New Rochelle Sentenced To Life Without Parole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A woman convicted of torturing and killing her domestic partner in New Rochelle has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Officials say the decomposing body of Concetta Morton was discovered on the third floor of a multifamily apartment three years ago.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Kenya Tilford was accused of torturing her for three months before ultimately <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/new-rochelle-woman-charged-with-torture-murder-in-girlfriends-death\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">killing her.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">She was <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/woman-found-guilty-on-all-charges-in-historic-torture-murder-trial\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">found guilty of all counts<\/a> in the historic case last month.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Those charges included murder, concealment of a human corpse and intimidating a victim or witness.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Attorneys for Tilford say they plan to appeal the sentence. <\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">RELATED: <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/westchester.news12.com\/family-of-westchester-woman-killed-her-girlfriend-says-warning-signs-were-missed\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Family of Westchester woman killed her girlfriend says warning signs were missed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman convicted of torturing and killing her domestic partner in New Rochelle has been sentenced to life&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-207764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}