A southern Utah man pleaded guilty in Utah’s U.S. District Court on Wednesday to kidnapping a Santa Clara man and leaving him in the Arizona desert to die.
Francis Lee McCard, 56, of Washington, agreed to a sentence of 29 years in prison for the federal offense of kidnapping resulting in the death of 30-year-old David Corey Heisler on June 27, 2016, court documents show.
Additionally, McCard agreed to plead guilty in an Arizona case to second-degree murder, a class 1 felony which will carry a penalty of 25 years in prison, and kidnapping, as a dangerous class 2 felony which carries a sentence of 21 years.