Man gets 40-year sentence in 2nd body in car case

Published 4:34 pm Saturday, December 13, 2014

ANOKA — A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for a second grisly killing of a young woman.

Alberto Palmer will serve at least two-thirds of the sentence imposed Friday by Anoka County Court for the 2013 death of 18-year-old Brittany Clardy. That’s in addition to the minimum of 30 years of a life sentence he’ll serve for killing Klaressa Cook, 24.

Both sentences are part of a plea agreement Palmer made this summer. The sentences are consecutive, not concurrent.

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Clardy’s body was found stuffed in a car in a Columbia Heights impound lot in February 2013. Three months later, Cook’s body was discovered in a car at a Minneapolis lot.

Palmer also was wanted for three attacks on escorts in Georgia.