 From the KCRG-TV9 newsroom, I'm Jim Mertens. A Cedar Rapids man will spend the rest of his life in prison for killing his neighbor almost two decades ago. A Linn County judge found Curtis Paget guilty of first-degree murder in May. Paget beat and stabbed Dennis first to death in 2007. Investigators found first body inside his apartment at the Hawthorne Hills Apartments. That's on C Street Southwest. But Paget wasn't charged until last year. In the courtroom on Tuesday, Paget called first his best friend and denied killing him.