Lia Y. Tricomo will serve a 29-year, 9-month sentence for the 2013 murder of her former counselor and roommate John Alkins. The 29-year-old Olympia woman was sentenced by Thurston County Superior Court Judge Gary Tabor on Wednesday morning. Tabor awarded Tricomo the maximum sentence for the charges: second-degree murder, three counts of second-degree assault and taking a motor vehicle without the owner’s permission. She was charged with first-degree murder soon after arrest, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charges in November of 2014.