SEATTLE -- The stepson of a Boeing employee shot to death in his car and the triggerman were both sentenced Friday to 25 years in prison for their roles in the murder-for-hire plot.

John Ogden, 20, was convicted in August of participating in the plot to kill his stepfather, 61-year-old Ron Whitehead, for his estate and insurance money.

Wilson Sayachack, 19, pleaded guilty this morning to first-degree murder and was also sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Whitehead was killed as he drove to work in March of 2005 near SeaTac in what prosecutors said was a premeditated murder made to look like a carjacking gone wrong.

Ogden's mother, Velma Ogden-Whitehead, was sentenced in June to 22 years for orchestrating the killing.

On Friday neither Ogden nor Sayachack spoke or apologized at their sentencing, but their family members pleaded for leniency.

"I want to fight because I believe, when I look at him, there's still this goodness inside him still," said Ty Sayachack, Wilson's brother.

Those who loved Whitehead, however, wanted nothing short of justice for the two men.

"He (Ogden) took the life of a loving and trusting man. He destroyed a family. He killed the only man who loved him and called him 'son,'" said Jay Hildebrand, Whitehead's future son-in-law.

The judge agreed, and handed down the recommended sentence for both men.

For one woman, the day finally brought closure. Whitehead's daughter, Kim Whitehead, has waited for four years for justice to be brought to her father's killers.

"It's been a very long time. I'm just grateful that this is finally over," she said.

On several occasions after her husband was killed, Ogden-Whitehead invited the media into her home to plead for the shooter to come forward.

"We have to live with the fact that he's gone every day. But that person has to live with the fact that he murdered someone everyday," she said in an interview after the murder.

But after an investigation lasting more than a year, detectives said the evidence showed that Ogden-Whitehead plotted with her son from a previous marriage, John Ogden, and Ogden's friend, Wilson Sayachack, to kill Whitehead for insurance money.

Investigators said she paid Sayachack $1,000 to commit murder.

According to court documents, Sayachack hid in the trunk of Whitehead's car, crawled into the back seat and shot Whitehead in the head.

Ogden-Whitehead admitted to letting Sayachack hide in her husband's car before he left for work. She also told Sayachack where to find guns in her home.

Prosecutors said the Whiteheads were deep in debt and that Velma, who was having an affair, collected more than $1 million in insurance, property and investments when Ron was killed.

Ogden-Whitehead began spending the money on trips to Las Vegas and new cars, prosecutors wrote.

Investigators broke the case when they subpoenaed cell-phone records from the time of the killing, and saw that Sayachack and Ogden had exchanged 61 text messages.

"Knowing that I will never be forgiven by him (my husband) is something that I will have to live with for the rest of my life," Ogden-Whitehead later said.

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