WELCH, W.Va. – The killer of an Owatonna, Minnesota, man in a bizarre family incestuous tale was sentenced to life in prison. Judge Ed Kornish ordered that there be no mercy. Under West Virginia law, that means no parole — ever. The victim was John Thomas McGuire, 38, of Owatonna,  who was engaged to marry the daughter of Larry Paul McClure Sr., 55, of Pendleton, Kentucky. At the sentencing, McClure was stone-faced and showed no remorse. The case had unfolded in pieces over several months. It turned out that McGuire was tortured and then killed with the complicity of McGuire’s daughter, Amanda Michelle Naylor McClure, 31, of Chisago City, Minnesota. The death was gruesome: McGuire was struck on the head with a bottle of wine on Valentine’s Day, then tied up, and injected with two vials of meth. After the injection, he was strangled and buried in a shallow grave at McClure’s residence. The body was later dug up and moved to a side yard. This all was in February 2019, but the murder was unnoticed outside the family  for several months. Only after McClure was arrested on an unrelated offense as a registered sexual offender did he confess to the McGuire murder. The motive? Unexplained. McGuire’s Social Security disability checks, however, continued to be cashed. Also, McClure and his daughter Amanda had ongoing sex relations. Three weeks after the murder they traveled across the state line to Virginia and got married — but hiding their biological relationship. This July the daughter, Amanda, pleaded guilty in July to second-degree murder in the slaying. Amanda’s sentencing has been scheduled forr October. Larry McClure said the murder was his daughter’s idea and he just went along. At sentencing Judge Kornish was unmoved: “This was not a single violent act. It was a conscious decision. You tortured this man for three days before you killed him.” A second McClure daughter, Anna Marie Choudhary, 32, of Boone, North Carolina,has also been indicted an accomplice to murder.

Larry:Father

Amanda:Both daughter and spouse

Anna:Second daughter