![]() "I can't imagine walking in his shoes," said Superior Court Judge Michael Hayden. Rose, grimly and patiently, sat through each of the ensuing trials. That investigation also implicated him in a separate murder-for-hire scheme, hatched by Starling's mother, Teresa Rose, but never carried out. Her ex-boyfriend, Jason McDaniels, was arrested and sentenced to 41 years in prison. Starling, a bright 15-year-old who liked to draw and was struggling to fit in during her first year at a new school, was found dumped in a Kirkland park, face down in thick grass - strangled, jaw broken and stabbed through the neck with a kitchen knife. Mullin-Coston, 21, is the fourth and final person to be convicted in a series of related cases that prosecutors and police describe as among the most bizarre they've seen. Rose, 59, watched yesterday as Thomas Mullin-Coston was sentenced in King County Superior Court to more than 39 years in prison for first-degree murder of Rose's stepdaughter, Sarah Starling, a Bellevue teenager who was killed March 9, 1999. ![]() "When something like this happens, you just can't forget it's there." "You just have to deal with it," he said wearily. The question usually finds Jerry Rose at night, just before he tries to sleep: Did I do enough to protect my child? ![]()
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