A man who brutally stabbed his girlfriend to death in a Huntsville cemetery nearly a decade ago was sentenced to prison on Wednesday.
An Ogden jury in November found 42-year-old Gutberto Heras-Corrales guilty of first-degree felony murder for killing 26-year-old Noemi Rodriquez on Christmas day in 2008.
Though he contested the evidence at trial, Heras-Corrales admitted during his Wednesday sentencing hearing that he was the one who killed his girlfriend, a mother of three.
“I feel a lot of remorse for this case, for what happened,” the man said through a Spanish interpreter. “I would like to ask for forgiveness and to say I will accept my sentence, whatever it is.