A New Jersey man who strangled his girlfriend, stuffed her body into a refrigerator and drove it in the back of his pickup truck to a remote state forest has been sentenced to 17 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Christopher Blevins, 46, pleaded guilty in October to first-degree aggravated manslaughter over the death of 50-year-old Laura Hughes. He had originally been charged with first-degree murder, but that more serious count was dropped under a plea agreement, according to court reports.
