A New Mexico man will spend more than 51 years in prison for the 2023 murder of a Gardner woman at a hotel.
On Oct. 29 in Johnson County District Court, Franklin Bluelake, 59, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, was sentenced to 620 months in the Kansas Department of Corrections for second-degree intentional murder in the death of Rhoda Morgan. Judge Timothy D. McCarthy handed down the sentence…