OKEECHOBEE, Fla. — Michael Woodbury, the onetime Mainer who shot and killed three people at the Army Barracks store in Conway in 2007, pleaded guilty last week to murdering a fellow inmate in a Florida prison.
Woodbury has been serving a life sentence without parole in Florida since 2009.
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