(COLORADO SPRINGS) — A man has been sentenced to 70 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder in the brutal killing of a Colorado Springs woman in 2022.
According to the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s (DA) Office, Gregory Alan Whittemore pleaded guilty to second degree murder and first degree assault in the Oct. 10, 2022 murder of 27-year-old Allison Scarfone, which the DA’s office called “disturbing and violent.”
The DA’s Office said Whittemore and Scarfone met in October of 2022, while Whittemore was on parole for a felony attempted sexual assault conviction from 2013. Whittemore was sentenced to 10 years to life of Sexual Offender Intensive Supervised Probation in connection to that conviction, which he violated in 2017. He was then re-sentenced to five years to life in prison.
After being paroled, and less than a week after meeting, the DA’s Office said Whittemore lured Scarfone back to his home where an argument ensued. Whittemore then beat and raped Scarfone before killing her by manual strangulation and smothering. He then concealed her body in a black plastic tote in his garage.
Hours later, Scarfone’s body was found by the Colorado Springs Police Department.
“Allison Scarfone deserved to live a long and fruitful life, yet she was brutally murdered by a violent sex offender who should have been in prison on his prior five years to life sentence,” said 4th Judicial DA Michael Allen. “The criminal justice system must do better to protect members of this community from people like this defendant. Violent sex offenders who are duly convicted for their crimes should be separated from society and held in prison for much longer than just five years.”
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