Willer sentenced in fatal 2009 meth lab fire

By Jeff Haldiman, Bob Watson

Saturday, June 4, 2011

Lisa R. Willer, who turned 36 Wednesday, was sentenced Friday to seven years in prison — the maximum sentence available — after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter.

Willer and Johnathan Tharp, who will turn 36 next Friday, were charged in 2009 with making methamphetamine on Oct. 7, 2009, in a room at Judy’s Cafe and Hotel on The Square in Linn, across the street from the Osage County Courthouse.

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A next-door neighbor — Daniel Mittenburg, 20, Clinton, a Linn State Technical College student — died of smoke inhalation after the mixture caught fire and got out of control.

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