- Laura Darlene Northrup, 62, was sentenced to 15 years to life for murder on Thursday.
- Northrup pleaded guilty with a mental condition to killing her roommate at a shelter for the medically vulnerable.
- Family of victim, Stephanie Haskett-Carrasco, spoke at the hearing and shared a slideshow with pictures of her.
SALT LAKE CITY — A woman was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison on Thursday after admitting that she killed her roommate at a Sandy shelter.
Laura Darlene Northrup, 62, pleaded on July 22, 2026, to guilty with a mental condition to murder, a first-degree felony. Third District Judge Dianna Gibson issued her sentence, and recommended she get credit for the more than two years she already spent behind bars.
Stephanie Lynn Haskett-Carrasco, 62, one of Northrup’s two roommates at the Medically Vulnerable People Program Facility, was found deceased under her bed on May 26, 2024, with “significant blunt force trauma to her head and neck,” according to a statement from Salt Lake County Attorney Sim Gill…