Joel Cain was sentenced today for murdering Pam Roberts.
He's 38 years old and he'll be spending the rest of his life in prison.
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Thomas Roberts wished Joel Cain a long life and a clear memory Monday morning, the better for Cain to be haunted by the horrible scene he left at Coop's Tiny Tap, where he killed Roberts' wife with an ax last year.
Pam Roberts' son, Eric Dulay, expressed more pointed feelings.
"I hope you absolutely rot in hell," said Dulay, 27, who wore his mother's photo on a commemorative T-shirt and her likeness in a tattoo on his arm as he spoke in court.
They were among almost two dozen friends and family of Pam Roberts who came to Monday's sentencing for Cain, convicted in July of her Feb. 26, 2008 murder during a robbery at the Tiny Tap, where Roberts, 58, was a popular bartender and Cain had been a regular patron.
Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Patricia McMahon sentenced Cain, 38, to life without chance for extended supervision, followed by 25 years for armed robbery.
"A crime of this magnitude exhausts our ability to describe it," McMahon said.
The victim's brother, Doug Roth, also spoke during sentencing. He called Cain a despicable coward, for taking advantage of Pam Roberts' generous, giving personality before he killed her in the basement of the bar at 5501 W. Vliet St., which closed after the murder.
Roth said that even as a paratrooper in the Vietnam War, he never saw the kind of carnage left in the tavern basement, after Cain struck Roberts repeatedly with an ax to eliminate the only witness to his robbery of the tavern to support a cocaine habit.
In court today, Cain didn't offer Pam Roberts' family members any apologies nor did he show remorse.
Though nothing can undo their loss, I hope the family and friends of Pam Roberts find some solace in knowing that Cain will pay for his crimes for the rest of his life.
He will never be a free man.
Justice was done in this life and I believe Cain will receive justice in the next.
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