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 February 2024 and “subsequently placed their respective bodies in military tote-style containers and attempted to conceal the crime by disposing of the totes with the bodies therein by hiding them in the desert.”

Owens and Bull were deemed missing a few days after the murder when a mutual friend reported a suspicious text message from Bull’s phone. The s

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