Man given 26-year sentence for dismembering girlfriend

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a California man to 26 years in prison for killing his girlfriend in Panama, dismembering her body with a machete and disposing of her remains in the jungle.
Brian Brimager was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in San Diego in the death of 42-year-old Yvonne Lee Baldelli.
Brimager had entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder, saying he stabbed Baldelli in the back before disposing of her remains on a Panamanian island where the couple