HELENA (AP) — A southwestern Montana man who pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend and burying her body near the Madison County ranch where he worked has been sentenced to
HELENA, Mont. (AP) â A southwestern Montana man who pleaded guilty to killing his girlfriend and burying her body near the Madison County ranch where he worked has been sentenced to 100 years in prison without the possibility of parole, the Montana Department of Justice said Tuesday.
Stanley Gordon Bernardini, 58, was sentenced Monday by District Judge Luke Berger in Virginia City for the July 2018 death of Michelle Sorrows, 37, of Ennis.
Bernardini pleaded guilty to deliberate homicide and evidence tampering on the first day of his trial in October 2020, saying he killed Sorrows after they fought at his apartment.
After Sorrows was reported missing in August 2018, informants told investigators that Bernardini had told them he and Sorrows fought after using methamphetamine and alcohol and that he used a backhoe to bury her on a remote part of the ranch.
Bernadini sentenced for the deliberate homicide of Michelle Sorrows
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GREAT FALLS â Stanley Gordon Bernadini has been sentenced to 100 years in the Montana State Prison, with no time suspended, for the deliberate homicide of Michelle Sorrows of Ennis.
The Montana Department of Justice (DOJ) Prosecution Services Bureau said in a news release that Bernadini, 58 years old, also received a concurrent sentence of 10 years for tampering with physical evidence.
On the first day of his October 2020 trial, Bernadini admitted he killed Sorrows after they got into a fight at his apartment in July 2018. He buried her body in a remote area in the Madison Range near where he worked as a ranch hand. After several searches, DOJ Division of Criminal Investigation (DCI) agents and local law enforcement found Sorrows remains in June 2019.
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