Man sentenced to 10 years after killing girlfriend

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A man who killed his girlfriend then tried but failed to hide her body was sentenced Tuesday.
Last July, Christopher Fernandez barricaded himself at the Bluewater apartments complex near Coors and Central after he was identified as a suspect in the murder of 41-year-old Alma Contreas.
Her body was found wrapped in a blanket and a tarp next to a moving van near a South Valley home. She had been shot in the head.
Fernandez last month pleaded no contest to