PROVO, Utah (AP)-A Utah man has been convicted of strangling his neighbor after long being suspected of killing her but not charged until authorities learned he brought up the slaying as he tried to join a prison gang.
A jury on Tuesday convicted the 35-year-old Jerad Gourdin of aggravated murder for financial gain in the killing of the 60-year-old woman from Provo.
Prosecutors say they got the break in the case when an informant told authorities that Gourdin wanted to join a gang in prison last year that required killing someone and asked whether an earlier slaying would count.
