PROVO — Stacy Mason screamed over the phone to the 911 dispatcher that her ex-husband was coming back to the house. She screamed again and the line went dead. When the dispatch called back seconds later, Stacy’s daughter Shaylee picked up and cried, “My dad just shot my mom!”

Family and friends of both Stacy and her ex-husband Boyd Mason listened in 4th District Court on Monday to the 911 call from her parents’ home in Payson on Nov. 29, 2001; a call that marked the last seconds of Stacy Mason’s life. The phone call was the last piece of evidence prosecuting attorneys presented at Boyd Mason’s sentencing.

During the brief silence between when she had hung up and the dispatch called back, Boyd Mason shot his wife twice through the door and twice at point-blank range with a shotgun. He then fled and was later that day apprehended by police.

After listening to the phone call and recommendations from prosecuting and defense attorneys, Judge Anthony Schofield sentenced Boyd Mason, 32, to up to life in prison on the charge of murder, up to five years in prison for the charge of domestic violence, up to 15 years for obstruction of justice and six months in jail for simple assault. Schofield ordered all charges to run consecutively except the charge of obstruction of justice, which will run concurrently with the other charges.

According to a pre-sentence report, Mason will likely spend 20 to 35 years in prison before being offered parole.

After the sentencing, Stacy Mason’s father, Richard Terrano-

va, called Schofield’s sentencing “just, and tempered with a little bit of mercy.” He also said he had forgiven his former son-in-law but still felt Mason needed to pay for his crimes.

“I hope in the next 20,

30 or 40 years, Boyd will become a better person,” he said.

Schofield also ordered Mason to pay $7,000 in restitution to his daughter Shaylee Mason, now 12 years old, and ordered him to have no contact with her or his 14-year-old son until they reach 18 years of age.

“This is the saddest matter the court has seen in a long time,” Schofield said.

A jury convicted Boyd Mason on Jan. 31 after a two-week trial, which included Shaylee Mason testifying against her father as the prosecution’s star witness. The five-man, three-woman jury rejected the defense attorneys’ argument that Mason was too drunk to know what he was doing.

On Monday, public defender Christine Johnson said though alcohol didn’t justify his actions, Boyd Mason wouldn’t have killed his wife had he not been intoxicated. Johnson called on the court to exercise mercy and asked Schofield to run the sentences concurrently. She also asked that Mason be allowed to have contact with his children. Schofield denied both requests.

Meanwhile, both prosecuting attorneys and family members painted Boyd Mason as a ruthless and abusive husband whose wife feared the holidays because he would drink even more heavily. Curtis Larson, Utah County prosecutor, said the trial had proved that Mason felt no remorse for the murder.

“I listened to the statement that he loved the victim,” Larson said. “He didn’t love the victim. He hated the victim with a passion and wanted her dead.”

Jesse Coleman can be reached at 344-2549 orjcoleman@heraldextra.com.

This story appeared in The Daily Herald on page A1.