UPDATE: Lauren Stinde was sentenced Thursday in Jackson County Court to 30 years in prison for the first-degree murder of Robin Stief.

JACKSON COUNTY — A 26-year-old former Centralia woman is scheduled to be sentenced Thursday in Jackson County Court in connection with her role in the 2016 murder of former Salem resident Robin Stief in Carbondale.

Lauren Stinde was one of three people charged in connection with Stief’s death and the burning of her remains.

Stinde pleaded guilty to first-degree murder a few months after her arrest and the arrests of Robert Dennis and Tiesha Anderson.

Anderson pleaded guilty last year to first-degree murder and concealing a homicidal death and was sentenced to 40 years in prison.

Last month Dennis was admitted to the Department of Human Services after the agency determined he is mentally unfit to stand trial. A hearing on his fitness will be scheduled for a later date.

Evidence presented in court showed that Stief was hit on the head with a hammer, strangled with a belt and suffocated with a pillow before she died at an apartment on South Marion in Carbondale.

After she died, her body was placed in a large trash can and wheeled from the apartment to a wooded location in Carbondale where it was set on fire to prevent the discovery of her murder.