AUSTIN, Texas - A man accused of the murder of a University of Texas at Austin nursing student more than 40 years ago has pled guilty and been sentenced.

What we know:

79-year-old Deck Brewer Jr was wheeled into the courthouse Wednesday to receive his sentence in the murder of 25-year-old Susan Leigh Wolfe.

Brewer received eight years in prison for first-degree murder. He was also initially charged with capital murder, but that charge was waived.

The time Brewer served in Massachusetts on an unrelated charge will count toward the sentence.

Brewer was arrested in August 2024 and indicted in December 2024 , more than 44 years after Wolfe's murder.

As part of a plea agreement, Brewer had to give up the name of the person who was with him that night in the passenger seat. That pe

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