Markle sentenced in 1982 murder of De Anna Lynn Johnson

Markle sentenced in 1982 murder of De Anna Lynn Johnson

For more than 42 years, the friends, family and loved ones of Vacaville teen De Anna Lynn Johnson waited to hear the words they had long hoped for. On Friday morning, in Department 2 of Solano County Superior Court in Vallejo, Judge Daniel Healy delivered them, bringing a measure of long-awaited relief and justice: Marvin Ray Markle Jr. will serve 26 years to life for the brutal strangulation and bludgeoning death of Johnson, 14, a student at Wi…