Man sentenced to 30 years after pleading guilty to 2018 murder of missing 37-year-old woman
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A man is set to spend three decades behind bars in the murder of a missing 37-year-old woman whose belongings were found in his yard following her disappearance in 2018.
The video above is from a previous report: Houston mother fights to keep man accused in her daughter's death behind bars
Court records show that the now-42-year-old Alex Haggerty pleaded guilty to killing Brittany Burfield last week and received a 30-year sentence.
ABC13 covered the intense search for Burfield five years ago when she was reported missing back in June of 2018.
At the time of her disappearance, homicide detectives said the two were acquaintances. When searching Haggerty's home, officials found some of Burfield's clothes and other personal items in his yard.
Haggerty was charged with her murder weeks later and was already in custody on an unrelated charge for choking a woman.
It wasn't until a year later that Haggerty reportedly led investigators to Burfield's body inside a nine-foot hole, giving the victim's family some closure.
"I'm so excited that we have her now. I'm so excited that we have her back. I love Brittany. I would have loved her if we found or didn't find her, but I'm so excited to have her back," Burfield's mother, Tricia Valentine, said in 2019.
SEE ABC13'S EXTENSIVE COVERAGE:
Murdered Houston woman's family concerned as her accused killer seeks release
'Help us bring Brittany home' Missing Houston woman's family makes emotional plea
Alex Haggerty charged with murder as Brittany Burfield remains missing
Search intensifies for missing woman after her belongings are found at man's home in Third Ward
