article_snippet: A man who led a Kansas commune that collected millions of dollars in life insurance payouts from dead members was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for the drowning death of one of dead members 12 years ago.
article_snippet: the commune had received $1.24 million from Hughes life insurance policy.
highlights_snippet: Daniel Perez, 55, led a Kansas commune that collected millions of dollars in life insurance payouts from dead members .
  
highlights_snippet: He received a life sentence for murder in Patricia Hughes' 2003 death at the commune's 20-acre compound near Wichita .
  