Parole denied for Visalia man in 2016 murder of girlfriend

VISALIA, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Visalia antheral volition stay locked up aft Tulare County prosecutors secured a three-year denial of parole for 41-year-old Andres Ybarra.

He is serving a beingness condemnation for the execution of his girlfriend, Ruby Lopez.

Lopez was recovered astatine the couple's location successful furniture successful 2016.

Ybarra claimed she had overdosed connected medicine medication.

An autopsy revealed monolithic interior injuries.

Her origin of decease was attributed to blunt unit trauma and strangulation.

Ybarra was sentenced 15 years to beingness successful situation successful 2019.