Randy Fleming took the news of his sentencing Friday – 16 years to life in prison – as stoically as he described taking his girlfriend’s life at his murder trial.įleming was silent and emotionless as Sarah Douglas’ mother sobbed in the gallery and as an incredulous judge expressed disgust and disbelief at the former Cal Fire chief’s brutality and the dark path he traveled that ended astride Douglas stabbing and strangling her to death on the bed they shared in their Elk Grove-area home on May 1, 2014. Fleming received a 16-years-to-life sentence for killing his girlfriend, Sarah Douglas at their Elk Grove-area home in May 2014. A bailiff reaches to handcuff former Cal Fire chief Orville Fleming after his sentencing in Sacramento Superior Court on Friday.