STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — Steamboat Springs resident Robert Cash was sentenced to 38 years in prison Friday for crimes against his former wife that Judge Shelley Hill described as unthinkable and tantamount to torture.
“She is a victim of every single minute of every single day, and that is an impossible life to live,” Hill said in her Routt County Justice Center courtroom.
On Jan. 19, a 12-member jury found Cash, 57 at the time, for shooting his then-wife Rhonda Heaton in the back of the neck on June 11, 2010, at their west Steamboat Springs home.
Heaton told jurors during the trial that Cash refused to call an ambulance after shooting her and that he continued to check on her in their bedroom to see if she had died. She testified that Cash said he shot her “so you can’t destroy anyone’s life like mine.” The couple was going through a divorce and was in the process of losing their home to foreclosure. Cash recently had lost his job, as well.
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