In Redwood City, California a man has been sentenced to 55 years in prison for the murdering the daughter of former Raider great Fred Biletnikoff

Mohammed Haroon Ali was sentenced to prison Thursday in San Mateo Superior Court for killing his then-girlfriend, Tracy Biletnikoff in 1999. He was convicted in March and will now more than likely spend the rest of his natural life behind bars.

Haroon Ali allegedly strangled Tracy Biletnikoff, then 20 years old, to death in 1999 at a drug and alcohol treatment center after a dispute over a fight regarding whether he had relapsed or not. When questioned at the trial, Ali claimed that he had gone so far as to remove the victims pants to make it look like a sexual crime and “throw investigators off his trail”. Ali made a deliberate effort to sneak Biletnikoff’s body out of the Project 90 substance abuse treatment center and into a van. He then dumped her body on a hillside on the Cañada College campus in Redwood City.

Because Ali has a prior conviction for kidnapping and beating a previous girlfriend, his sentence was doubled under the state’s Three Strikes Law. Ali was on probation for the kidnapping when he killed Biletnikoff.

According to the San Mateo County Times, Fred Biletnikoff (father of the victim), was quoted as saying:

“There will never be any closure for me. My hatred for Ali will never go away.”