A Norwich man has been sentenced to 58 years in prison for the December 2011 Norwich murder of a 26-year-old mother of two.
Police responded to Mohegan Park Apartments at 88 Mohegan Park Road in Norwich just before 2 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011 after Wirth called 911 and said she’d been shot.
Her two young sons, then 2 and 7 years old, were home during the shooting, police said, and the older boy was a witness to the crime.
At the time, police said only that they were looking for a male shooter but authorities made the arrest after billboards went up in 2013, offering a $25,000 reward and the Wirth murder case was placed on cold case playing cards that were sold to inmates in Connecticut prisons.
The ad about the reward featured a photo of Jaclyn and her family, said “Who Shot Our Mommy?” and included a phone number to call Norwich Detectives.
Cecil was charged with murder, felony murder, criminal possession of a firearm and first-degree criminal attempted burglary.
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He was also sentenced to 10 years on a weapons charge, with the sentence to run concurrently.
