A 26-year-old Garfield County man today was sentenced to 42 years in prison for stalking and slashing the face of his ex-girlfriend in 2008.
Ian Michael Ranney of Carbondale was convicted by a jury in January on charges of attempted first-degree murder, felony menacing and felony stalking.
According to the Eagle County Sheriff’s Department, Ranny attacked his former girlfriend as she walked from her home in the Aspen-Basalt Mobile Home Park to her car just before 6 a.m. on Sept. 29, 2008.
Ranney confessed, but his defense argued he only meant to scare the victim with the 12-inch knife. He intended to quickly change clothes and pretend to rescue her, so that she would take him back, according to the defense in the four-day trial.
Instead, a struggle ensued and the woman suffered stab wounds and multiple lacerations to her face, neck arms and hands, but survived.
Ranney faced a maximum sentence of 48 years.
