Marine Gets Life in Prison for Murder Plot
The Kentucky Wizard
January 27, 2004, 10:12 PM EST
SAN DIEGO -- A Marine was sentenced to life in federal prison
Tuesday for trying to murder the husband of a woman with whom he
was having an affair while the two men were stationed in Kuwait.
Chief Warrant Officer Larry A. Framness will be eligible for
parole in 25 years, said a spokesman at Miramar Marine Corps Air
Station, where the court-martial was held. The military judge
ordered Framness dismissed from the Marines.
Framness, 36, pleaded guilty Monday to attempted murder, making
false statements, dereliction of duty and adultery in the May 14
attack on Chief Warrant Officer James Glass, who suffered
shrapnel wounds to his neck, back and legs in a grenade attack.
Military officials said Framness lured Glass into a small guard
shack in Kuwait and then tossed the grenade at him. The
explosion was supposed to look like a terrorist attack.
Framness met Glass while they were assigned to the Marine Wing
Support Squadron 371, based in Yuma, Ariz. He later met Wendy
Glass and the two began an 18-month affair before plotting to
kill James Glass in October 2002.
Military prosecutors argued that Framness and Wendy Glass
expected to collect $350,000 in life insurance.
Wendy Glass testified last year that she and Framness initially
planned to kill James Glass in November 2002 by getting him
drunk and hoping he would drive his car off a cliff during a
weekend cabin trip in California. She said she had wanted to end
her 14-year marriage but her husband would not agree to a
divorce.
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