Murders Nebraska

A man was shot to death after stopping to pull a woman from a burning car, investigators said Wednesday. Robert Parminter, 45, and Shannon Bluhm, 27, were found dead Tuesday night near the burned-out car, the Nebraska State Patrol said. Police said Parminter and Bluhm apparently did not know one another. A woman, whose identity was not disclosed, was arrested Wednesday, and investigators recovered a gun believed to have been used to kill Parminter, a State Patrol spokeswoman said.

A man who believed his wife was terminally ill with cancer and shot her to death to relieve her pain was sentenced Friday to at least two years in prison. An autopsy had revealed that she died cancer-free. Vernal "Bob" Ohlrich, 77, had pleaded no contest to manslaughter and was sentenced to between two years and 3 1/3 years. He will be eligible for parole in a year. He could have been sentenced to 20 years.

On the last night of his life, Scott Catenacci left his job at the Krispy Kreme doughnut shop, climbed into his car and drove through the darkness toward the Iowa border. He was heading to meet some friends in a park, intent on selling his laptop computer. Those friends, authorities say, were waiting to murder him. One week earlier, Catenacci and three of those friends had experimented with partner-swapping sex--"basically a group orgy," one later recalled.