By Sharyn L. Decker
Lewis County Sirens news reporter
The (Longview) Daily News reports the teenager who claimed he had the long missing Kayla Croft-Payne and demanded $35,000 for her return was sentenced to prison time.
News reporter Leslie Slape writes the Longview resident had a reputation for making things up.
Croft-Payne was 18 years old and living outside Chehalis on April 28, 2010 when she last logged onto her MySpace internet account. She was reported missing on May 5 by a friend who hadn’t seen or heard from her for several days.
Read Slape’s news story here