Teen sentenced to decades in prison for killing father at Lincoln apartment
The Lincoln teen convicted of fatally stabbing her father over two years ago was sentenced on Thursday.
By News Channel NebraskaLINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN) - The Lincoln teen convicted of fatally stabbing her father over two years ago was sentenced on Thursday.
A Lancaster County judge sentenced 18-year-old Sallie Gilmer to 40 to 60 years in prison for second-degree murder.
Gilmer pled guilty to the charge back in November of 2024. In exchange for the plea, prosecutors lowered the first-degree murder charge and dropped one count of use of a weapon to commit a felony.
In October of 2022, Gilmer, who was 15 at the time, was arrested along with her boyfriend, Isaac Honigschmidt, at the Lodge Apartments near 40th Street and Nebraska Parkway.
Inside Gilmer’s apartment, police found the body of 70-year-old Jessie Gilmer Jr. with multiple stab wounds after Gilmer contacted police.
She initially told police she had found his body after arriving home from school. But according to investigators, the two plotted to kill her father before executing their plan.
Gilmer, along with her boyfriend, were tried as adults in the case.
On Jan. 10, Honigschmidt took a plea deal and pled no contest to one count of aiding and abetting the use of a deadly weapon to commit a felony and one count of tampering with evidence.
In exchange for the pleas, prosecutors reduced his former charge of aiding and abetting first-degree murder. Honigschmidt now faces anywhere between two and 100 years in prison.
Honigschmidt is set to be sentenced on Feb. 21.