Oklahoma Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Pregnant Woman
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An Oklahoma City man has pleaded guilty to killing the mother of his unborn child.
No plea agreement was in place when 21-year-old Eric Kennedy Phan entered his guilty pleas Thursday on two counts of first-degree murder.
Prosecutors did not seek the death penalty, so Phan will face a sentence of life in prison either with or without parole. His sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 17.
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Phan was arrested in November after Lauren Barnes, 20, disappeared. Her body was found in a shallow grave at Oklahoma City's Stinchcomb Wildlife Refuge.
She was nearly six months pregnant.
A state medical examiner said Barnes died of asphyxiation.