Repeat Domestic Violence Offender Receives Life Sentence for Murdering His Ex-Girlfriend

A Colorado man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for strangling his ex-girlfriend to death early last year.

Wayne Lotz, 59, was convicted by a jury of his peers in Jefferson County late last week on seven counts related to the disappearance and murder of Michele Scott, 55, according to law enforcement.

As Law&Crime previously reported, Lotz was arrested after he was found driving the missing victim’s car on Valentine’s Day 2022. Scott’s body was discovered the next day near the intersection of Pleasant Park Road and High Grade Road in Pleasant Park Corridor, a part of Jefferson County near unincorporated Conifer, Colorado.

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