PHOENIX (AP) — After family members of a slain Navajo woman described their grief in a federal courtroom, the judge on Monday sentenced her boyfriend to life imprisonment for first-degree murder in a case that became emblematic of what officials call an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women.

Jaime Yazzie's case became emblematic of what officials call an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women​.

Five years after Yazzie went missing — and a year after James was found guilty — Yazzie’s family finally gets closure.

The boyfriend of a Navajo woman whose killing highlighted calls to end an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women in North America was set to be sentenced for his murder conviction in the case

Jaime Yazzie was 32 and the mother of three sons when she went missing in the summer of 2019 from the Navajo Nation

After family members of a slain Navajo woman described their grief in a federal courtroom, the judge on Monday sentenced her boyfriend to life imprisonment for first-degree murder in a case that became emblematic of what officials call an epidemic of missing and slain Indigenous women.