PRINCESS ANNE, Md.- A former Manokin man convicted of murdering a Crisfield woman was sentenced to a total of 60 years in prison Monday by a Somerset County Circuit Court judge.

Thirty-six-year-old Joseph Olandis Walter Hayman Jr. was indicted by a grand jury in August after police found the charred skeletal remains of Rhonda Lee Parks 10 feet from the rear of a house owned by a relative of Hayman, whom he lived with at one time.

Judge Daniel Long sentenced Hayman to life in prison but suspended all but 50 years on the first-degree murder charge and 10 years on the use of a handgun in a felony or violent crime charge.

Hayman entered an Alford plea for both charges in April. Under an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit guilt but acknowledges prosecutors have sufficient evidence for a conviction. 

Parks was last seen in February 2006 at a Dash-In convenience store in Westover, and had been reported as a missing person to police. During the search for Parks, her purse, identification and jeans were located on a grassy shoulder area of northbound Route 13 in the Westover area. 

For two years, police had been searching for Parks. On April 10, 2008, the Somerset County Sheriff's Office received information from North Carolina concerning human remains that could be located at Hayman's previous address in the Manokin area.

Approximately 10 feet from the rear of the vacant home located on the 8500 block of Fontaine Road in Manokin, police found a 55-gallon steel drum containing Parks' burned and badly decomposed skeletal remains. 

Prosecutors believe Hayman left for North Carolina in 2006, the same year Parks was reported missing. Hayman was extradited back to Maryland in July to face charges.