An Indiana man was sentenced to 80 years in prison for the 1988 abduction, rape and killing of 8-year-old April Tinsley.
Allen County Judge John Surbeck sentenced 59-year-old John D. Miller to 50 years for murder and 30 years for child molestation on Friday after he pleaded guilty on December 7.
He only spoke to state his name in a 'strong by shaky voice' to a packed court room where every chair was filled and spectators stood at the back where there was no sitting room.
WPTA.com reported April's cousin told him she uses the word human loosely when she describes him and referred to him as an animal during a statement in court.
Christina Snyder ended her speech by looking directly at him to say: 'Burn in hell you monster.'
Many of April's family members spoke in court Friday.
The girl was abducted on April 1, 1988. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled.
Her case was closed more than 30 years after the little girl's body was found in a ditch on Dekalb County Road by a jogger.
It was about 20 miles (32 kilometers) away from her Fort Wayne neighborhood three days after she was snatched and she had been dead due to suffocation for at least two days.
April had been playing with friends outside when she told them she'd left her umbrella at one of their houses. She said she would collect it and come back. She never did.
A witness at the time told police that a man in his 30s had yelled at April from a blue pickup truck and then pulled her inside.