After Gentz gets 17-28 years in Jane Bashara's death, her family says the case is still not overFebruary 20, 2013
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Jane Bashara's sister said her family feels strongly that Tuesday's sentencing of a man who admitted to killing the Grosse Pointe Park mother isn't the end of the case.
Former handyman Joseph Gentz was sentenced by Wayne Circuit Judge Vonda Evans to serve 17-28 years in prison for Bashara's death.
She told Gentz, who pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in December and agreed to testify truthfully in any proceedings, that he wanted to feel empowered and needed by "a person who used you to achieve his goal: freedom from his marriage."
Gentz has said Bob Bashara, Jane Bashara's husband, offered him money to kill his wife and threatened him if he didn't go through with it -- a claim that Bob Bashara denies.
"Mr. Gentz had no motive to murder our sister Jane," Julie Engelbrecht Rowe, Jane Bashara's sister, said at the sentencing. "We believe his statement that he was coerced into murdering her."
She said Gentz knew his actions were wrong, and he should be held accountable.
"Every single day of our lives we will be haunted by how Jane was taken from this world," she said. "No human being should be killed, but especially not in the cruel and coldhearted manner in which Jane was murdered."
Engelbrecht Rowe said her sister's death left an open wound in her family that will never heal.
"Our healing will begin when the whole truth is known and all who were involved are held accountable," she said.
She never mentioned Bob Bashara by name as she spoke in the Detroit courtroom.
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