A woman was found stabbed to death in a cemetery 9 years ago. This week, a Utah jury convicted her boyfriend of murder.

An Ogden jury has convicted a man of brutally stabbing his girlfriend to death in a Huntsville cemetery nearly a decade ago.

Following an eight-day trial, Gutberto Heras-Corrales, now 42, was found guilty Tuesday of first-degree felony murder for killing 26-year-old Noemi Rodriguez on Christmas day in 2008.

The mother of three was found dead on Dec. 26 by a snow plow driver who was clearing the roads for a funeral, according to preliminary hearing testimony. She had been stabbed 32 times, mostly in her neck, chest and face, and the snow around her was stained with her blood.

Murder charges were filed against Heras-Corrales in 2009, but he fled to Mexico and was not brought back to Utah to face trial until 2015.

Rodriguez’s son, Victor Hernandez, testified in a 2016 preliminary hearing that he last saw his mother early that Christmas morning, when she kissed him on the forehead, told him “Merry Christmas,” and left for work. He was 11 years old at that time.

Prosecutors say that she met up with Heras-Corrales later that afternoon, and both their cell phones “pinged” a tower in Huntsville in the upper Ogden Valley later that day.

Hernandez testified that prior to his mother’s death, he witnessed escalating physical abuse by Heras-Corrales, which included the man holding a knife to his mother’s stomach. Once, when Rodriguez grabbed a broomstick to defend herself, Hernandez said his mother’s boyfriend told her in Spanish, “I’ll get revenge.”

Heras-Corrales is expected to be sentenced on Jan 17.

In addition to the murder case, Heras-Corrales is charged in Davis County with arson for allegedly burning down Rodriguez’s mobile home in Layton five days before she was murdered. That case is pending.