SALT LAKE CITY — The final two people charged in a 2021 murder of a Kearns woman were sentenced to prison on Monday.

On Feb. 6, 2021, Conzuelo “Nicole” Solorio-Romero was forced into a vehicle at gunpoint and taken to a West Valley residence at knifepoint. While she was in the house, prosecutors say she was shot twice, and then her body was transported to Tooele County and left on the side of a road.

Carolina Marquez, 43, of Salt Lake City, and her son Fernando Marquez, 27, of Kearns, were each charged in 3rd District Court with murder, obstruction of justice and aggravated kidnapping, first-degree felonies. Carolina Marquez was also charged with desecration of a human body, a third-degree felony.

Carolina Marquez directed two others to kidnap Solorio-Romero as she was “clearly angry” a

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