A man in Illinois has learned his fate for fatally stabbing his mother 26 times in a "brutal and heinous crime" and then admitting it to his brother.

Abel Quinones-Herstad, 23, has been sentenced to 38 years in prison after pleading guilty to the first-degree murder of his mother , the Kane County State's Attorney's Office announced .

The defendant was just 20 years old when he killed 55-year-old Edith Gonzalez-Alarcon on July 14, 2022.

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On that day, Quinones-Herstad stabbed his mother 26 times at her home on Jackson Place in Aurora, killing her. He is then believed to have placed her body in a closet of the home and hid a knife beneath a rug in the

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