<p>WELCH, W.Va. — A North Carolina woman has been sentenced to the maximum 40 years in prison in a West Virginia “trust game” murder that involved her father and sister.</p>
<p>Anna Marie Choudhary, 33, of Boone, North Carolina, was sentenced Wednesday in McDowell County Circuit Court for her January guilty plea to second-degree murder in the 2019 death of John Thomas McGuire, <a href="https://www.bdtonline.com/news/daughter-gets-40-years-in-family-torture-murder-case/article_a988ac34-929a-11eb-8a43-378d0d6b2e5b.html">the Bluefield Daily Telegraph</a> reported. </p>
<p>The body of McGuire, 38, of Owatonna, Minnesota, was found months later in a grave at the now-former residence of Choudhary’s father, Larry Paul McClure Sr., in the McDowell County community of Skygusty.</p>
<p>McClure, 55, of Pendleton, Kentucky, was sentenced last year to life in prison without the chance for parole for first-degree murder. Choudhary’s sister, Amanda Michelle Naylor McClure, 31, of Chisago City, Minnesota, previously received a 40-year sentence for second-degree murder. </p>
<p>According to earlier testimony, Amanda McClure and McGuire, who were in a relationship, were living in Indiana and were having problems with a vehicle. Larry McClure and Choudhary drove there to bring them to West Virginia. All four were using drugs. </p>
<p>Choudhary said at her sentencing that Larry McClure enticed McGuire to play a “trust game” in which McGuire’s feet were tied up. When he tried to get out of the bindings, Amanda McClure hit him in the head with a wine bottle, Choudhary said.</p>
<p>Larry McClure testified that McGuire was tortured for three days. At one point he had a garbage bag placed over his head and, eventually, he was strangled, McClure said. McClure also testified that McGuire was buried in a shallow grave behind his house. </p>
