Man gets 20 years in prison for crash that killed girlfriend

TROY, Mo. (AP) — A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for, among other things, causing a 2020 crash into a swollen eastern Missouri creek that killed his girlfriend. Prosecutors said in a statement Wednesday that 23-year-old Cole Michael McCall was sentenced after pleading guilty last month to involuntary manslaughter in the death of 20-year-old Jennelle Wulfmeier. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that McCall also pleaded guilty of tampering, forgery, leaving the scene of an accident and auto theft. Prosecutors say Wulfmeier was a passenger in McCall’s pickup truck when he crashed into a flooded creek in Elsberry, abandoned it with Wulfmeier still trapped inside, stole a car and then crashed it before being arrested.