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Donald Santini, a fugitive who eluded police for four decades after he strangled a woman in Florida, was discovered living with a false name in a rural Californian town on the US-Mexico border

A California man, who evaded law enforcement for nearly four decades, received a 50-year prison sentence Thursday for a 1984 murder, NBC News reported.

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Americas Most Wanted fugitive, Donald Santini (pictured) who spent 40 years on the run, has been sentenced for the 1994 murder of Cynthia Cindy Ruth Wood (center) that will see him die in prison.

Donald Santini — who appeared on the TV show "America's Most Wanted" in 1990, 2005 and 2013 — pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Cynthia "Cindy" Ruth Wood.

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He lived under the assumed name Wellman Simmonds, officials say.

Donald Santini, 65, of Campo, California, was sentenced Thursday in Hillsborough County, Florida, to 50 years in prison for the 1984 murder of Cindy Wood.

Before his arrest, Donald Santini had lived in California under the name of Wellman Simmonds. He was president of a local water board in Campo, a tiny suburb of San Diego, and he regularly appeared at public board meetings.

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