The Boone County Prosecutor’s office will argue for the maximum sentence for a man who has pleaded guilty in the grisly murder of his disabled friend last year.

Jacob Cram, 37, signed a plea deal admitting to murder before Boone Superior Court I Judge Matthew Kincaid late Friday.

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