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A Mountain View, Mo. man was sentenced in federal court Tuesday for murdering his estranged wife during an argument in a national park.
According to the Western District of Missouri U.S. Attorney’s Office, 31-year-old Dylan J. Hanger was sentenced to 21 years and 10 months in federal prison without parole.
Hanger pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the second degree for killing his estranged wife, Brittany Gorman, at the Buck Hollow Access Area along the Jacks Fork River in Texas County, Mo. on May 20, 2020. The couple had an argument when Hanger stabbed Gorman several times in the chest.
According to court documents, Hanger began planning to kill his wife (with whom he shared three children ages 5, 7, and 10) in the months leading up to May 2020. When they met at the Buck Hollow Access Area, Hanger stabbed his wife at least four times then took her body and dumped it in a remote location.
For nine days, Hanger maintained to both Gorman’ family and law enforcement Gorman was missing and suggested it was due to her drug connections. He finally admitted what he had done and revealed the location of Gorman’ body on May 30, 2020.
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