(Kelso, WA) -- A 73-year-old man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for killing his wife. Cleon Moen of Longview received a sentence of life without parole for strangling his 58-year-old wife, Michelle, in September 2015. The sentence was handed down in Cowlitz County Superior Court Friday, following a hearing. Authorities say the victim died of strangulation and was found with ax wounds to her head.