A mother and son were sentenced to six years in prison Tuesday in connection with the February murders of Sheri Pachello and Alisha Johns.
Rosann O’Donnell, 42, and Justin O’Donnell, 24, each had pleaded guilty to accessory to a crime, according to the Weld County district attorney’s office.
Prosecutors say the pair delayed the discovery of the murders and the apprehension of Cimmeron Johns by helping him his estranged wife and her mother.
The O’Donnells entered into a plea agreement in June, confessing to helping Johns after the murders by destroying evidence, concealing the victim’s vehicle, evading police and harboring Johns in their apartment for two weeks while he was sought by police.
Johns, who Rosann O’Donnell said confessed to her the killings, building in Thornton the day after the murders.
Prosecutors say Johns forced an SUV belonging to his mother-in-law, Sherri Pachello, and carrying his wife, Alicia Johns, off the road in a rural area of southern Weld County. He commandeered Pachello’s 1991 Ford Explorer and, after shooting the women, Johns left their bodies in separate locations about a mile apart.
The bodies were discovered Feb. 7.
