Kristen Price is the former girlfriend of Aaron McKinney, who was sentenced to two consecutive life prison sentences last week for the 1998 murder. McKinney's accomplice, Russell Henderson, is also serving two life terms.

Price originally was accused of accessory after-the-fact to first-degree murder, but the charge was reduced to interfering with a police officer, a misdemeanor.

Judge Robert Castor sentenced Price to 180 days in jail on Friday. She received 60 days of credit for time already served, and the remaining 120 days were suspended.

Prosecutors accused Price and Chasity Pasley, who was Henderson's girlfriend, of helping dispose of Henderson's bloody clothes. Pasley is serving 15 months to two years in prison after pleading guilty to an accessory charge.

Shepard, a 21-year-old gay University of Wyoming student, was beaten into a coma and left tied to a rural fence for 18 hours. He died five days later.