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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah board of pardons is denying parole to a man convicted of a killing his girlfriend and wounding her roommate nearly two decades ago.
The Deseret News reports (http://bit.ly/1JvUQ6A ) that the board's decision Monday means Michael Patterson will serve his full sentence. He won't be released until August 2017.
Patterson pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of his 18-year-old girlfriend Stephanie Woolfork, who went missing in the summer of 1997. He was sent to prison in 1998.
He was also convicted of attempted murder for shooting the woman's roommate, Alexis Caldwell, in the stomach while she was holding her 2-year-old son's hand on a porch.
During a 2009 parole hearing, he said the victims' families should "get over it."
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