BATON ROUGE — Ronn Bell was sentenced to life in prison Thursday for the 2019 murder of Sadie Roberts-Joseph.

Bell was found guilty in June of murdering his landlord, 75-year-old Roberts-Joseph, after falling behind on his rent. Her body was found in the trunk of her car near a vacant house on North 20th Street. 

Roberts-Joseph was a civil rights activist in the capital city and helped found an African-American museum.