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FORT COLLINS — Joseph Curl will spend his life in prison with no chance of parole rather than face a trial and a potential death sentence under a plea deal he accepted Wednesday.
Curl pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Linnea Dick on May 30, setting a fire to hide that she had been raped and strangled.
Curl, who turns 30 Friday, made the plea to Judge Terence Gilmore in Fort Collins. The Larimer County district attorney’s office said Dick’s family worked with the office.
