Mo. man sentenced to over 2 decades for fatally stabbing his estranged wife in national park
02/15/2023 12:38 pm PST
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (TCD) -- A 31-year-old man will spend over two decades in federal prison for stabbing his estranged wife to death in a national park.
According to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Western District of Missouri, Dylan Hanger met his estranged wife, Brittany Gorman, at the Buck Hollow Access Area within the Ozark National Scenic Riverways in May 2020, where he stabbed her several times in the chest. He then allegedly dumped the body in a "remote location."
On May 21, 2020, park rangers found Gorman's pickup truck, as well as items that "indicated that Gorman may have been injured," the National Park Service posted in a statement.
However, the Attorney's Office said Hanger "maintained to both Gorman's family and law enforcement that Gorman was missing and suggested that it was due to her drug connections."
Later that month, on May 30, 2020, Hanger confessed that he stabbed Gorman, and he led authorities to her body along the Jacks Fork River, the Attorney's Office said.
Months before the fatal stabbing, Hanger reportedly planned the killing, and he was charged with second-degree murder and tampering with physical evidence.
A year later, on May 10, 2022, Hanger pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder.
According to the Attorney's Office, on Tuesday, Feb. 14, Hanger was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison without parole.
Hanger and Gorman reportedly shared three children, ages 5, 7, and 10 years old.
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