A Utah man who admitted to killing his girlfriend and her 3-year-old son will not be allowed to seek a lower sentence in exchange for helping police find their bodies, a judge ruled on Tuesday.
Christopher Poulson has pleaded guilty to first-degree felony murder and second-degree felony manslaughter in the 2015 deaths of 23-year-old Emily Quijano and her 3-year-old son, Gabriel Almiron. But prosecutors agreed to support reduced charges if Poulson could help lead investigators to Quijano and Almiron’s bodies.
Based in part on Poulson’s recollections, search teams on Sept. 6 found the bodies of Quijano and Almiron buried in a shallow grave near a tree about five miles south of Eureka in Juab County.