Houston: A decade after pleading guilty to killing his ex-lover, a fugitive Indian-American medical billing specialist, just extradited from India, has started serving his 23-year prison term in a Texas jail.
Amit Livingston, 47, fled to India in 2007 after he pleaded guilty to killing his 31-year-old former lover Hermila Hernandez in 2005.
Hernandez was shot in the back of the head and her body was left on a South Padre Island in Texas after she reportedly told Livingston she wanted to end their relationship, KGBT-TV reported.
After announcing the sentence for 23 years in 2007, Judge Abel Limas strangely allowed Livingston 60 days to put his affairs in order before reporting to prison. When Livingston's date for reporting to prison arrived, he disappeared.
Limas and Armando Villalobos, the district attorney at the time, were both later convicted in a bribery conspiracy and the scheme that allowed Livingston to escape, the report said.
Livingston was arrested in India in 2014 and jailed in Hyderabad before being extradited to the US, under the terms of a 1997 India-US extradition treaty.
On Monday, Diplomatic Security Service agents boarded a flight with Livingston out of India. Upon arriving at Newark International Airport in New Jersey, they handed him over to US Marshals, who escorted him to Texas where he will serve his 23-year prison term.
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