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Charles Yoo was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for a double-murder that occured in Blanding in February 2024.

Family members shared the impact the murders have had on their lives at a sentencing hearing on Monday.

Judge Don Torgerson recommended Yoo never receive parole due to the crime's severity.

BLANDING — Family members blasted the actions of a Blanding man who was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison Monday for the "depraved" murders of his two housemates, whose bodies he dumped in the desert.

Charles Yoo, 36, pleaded guilty in September in Utah's 7th District Court to two counts of aggravated murder. In a plea statement, Yoo admitted he shot and killed Christopher "Topher" Owens, 28, and William "Drew" Bull, 29, in Fe

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