Bacon sentenced to life in prison for Makayla Chang murder
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NANAIMO — Convicted murderer Steven Michael Bacon will spend at least 20 years behind bars for the murder of local teenager Makayla Chang.
The 58-year-old Bacon pled guilty to second-degree murder in August 2022, admitting to killing Chang in 2017, nearly two months after she was reported missing.
She had turned 16-years-old about two weeks prior to her death.