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A woman was found stabbed to death in a cemetery 9 years ago. This week, a Utah jury convicted her boyfriend of murder.

An Ogden jury has convicted a man of brutally stabbing his girlfriend to death in a Huntsville cemetery nearly a decade ago.

Following an eight-day trial, Gutberto Heras-Corrales, now 42, was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree felony murder for killing 26-year-old Noemi Rodriguez on Christmas day in 2008.

The mother of three was found dead on Dec. 26 by a snow plow driver who was clearing the roads for a funeral, according to preliminary hearing testimony. She had been stabbed 32 times, mostly in her neck, chest and face, and the snow around her was stained with her blood.