Man gets 70 years for terrorizing ex-wife HARTFORD, Conn., Jan. 4 (UPI) -- A former advertising executive was sentenced to 70 years in a Connecticut prison Wednesday for kidnapping and threatening to kill his ex-wife. Richard Shenkman, 62, laughed when a judge ordered him to pay Nancy Tyler $100,000 in restitution for the 2009 kidnapping, the Hartford Courant reported. He was convicted of multiple counts Oct. 25 for taking Tyler to a house where they used to live in South Windsor, handcuffing the two of them together and threatening her. He set the house on fire after she escaped him. Judge Julia Dewey rejected defense motions for a psychiatric evaluation and for incarceration in the forensic unit at a state psychiatric hospital. Just before the sentencing, Shenkman made a statement in which he said he had hired a killer to go after Tyler. Hugh Keefe, his defense lawyer, said Shenkman did not show him the statement in advance and called it more proof his client is "off the reservation." "I think he's pathetic," Vicki Melchiorre, the prosecutor in the case, said. This was his last opportunity to terrorize her, and he took advantage of it. Shenkman faces another trial for an arson at Tyler's house in East Lyme in 2007.