Cab driver gets life sentence in 1989 cold case murder
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A prisoner and former cab driver has been given a life sentence for the stabbing death of a 71-year-old woman in her South Salt Lake home 25 years ago.
Gary Dean Hilfiker was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty in May to aggravated murder. The 56-year-old is already is serving a life sentence at the Utah State Prison for the 1992 murder of his 38-year-old girlfriend, Marsha Haverty.
Hilfiker was charged this spring with the 1989 death of Flora Rundle.
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He had given rides to Rundle several times, and was charged with breaking into her home, stabbing her and taking a couple hundred dollars from her purse.
Investigators ran DNA evidence preserved from Rundle's death into a national database in January and came up with a match to Hilfiker.