Fountain man sentenced to 70 years in prison after pleading guilty to murder and arson

A Fountain man was sentenced Friday to 70 years in prison for killing a woman and setting her home on fire.

Thomas Lee Turley, 29, pleaded guilty to 2nd degree murder and 1st degree arson in the death of Larissa Gabriell Tiffany-Schiess.

Turley, 30, was sentenced to 48 years in prison for the murder and 22 years in prison for the arson.

” I don’t have closure because I don’t believe in closure,” the victim’s mother Vickie Tiffany said. “There’s a resolution, okay, but I’ll never get closure. I’m not ever going to get over my daughter being murdered.”

Tiffany-Schiess’s body was found by firefighters who were responding to a fire at a home in the 900 block of Candlestar Loop S at around 2:30 a.m. on February 4.

Her car was missing and was later found in Pueblo.