Kenneth Padgett, 40, was convicted of first- and second-degree murder and tampering with evidence in the November 2001 death of Charlotte Miles. Prosecutors said Padgett suffocated Miles, 56, and entombed her in the breakfast nook of her trailer. He then rented out the trailer to an acquaintance, who found the body the next month.Padgett has denied killing Miles, saying she died of natural causes

She was on disability. She had things wrong with her, including a really bad case of acid reflux — a terrible “burping, belching problem.”

It took about five weeks for Miles’ decomposing body to ooze through a corner of her kitchen tomb, leaking red-yellow fluid with a “horrific stench” onto the floor.