 WFMD News. A Martinsburg, West Virginia man has been sentenced to life in prison with no chance of parole for the murder of his wife. According to the Journal News, Samuel E. Leinberg was found guilty after a jury determined during a three-day trial that he had premeditated the murder of his wife Valerie in the time it took him to pick up a baseball bat and bring it to the bathroom where they had been arguing. Leinberg hit his wife more than 12 times, killing her.