the Region - News from Sept. 15, 1986

An ex-convict from Louisiana who was captured two years ago at a downtown bus station as he was about to flee Los Angeles was sentenced to 50 years to life in prison for the first-degree murder of his cousin’s girlfriend and her 11-year-old daughter. David Hensley, 32, was convicted Aug. 7 in the stabbing deaths of Joan Harris, 30, and her daughter Nicole, who were killed in March, 1984, in their West 62nd Street apartment. In exchange for having the case decided by a judge, rather than a jury, the prosecution agreed not to seek the death penalty.