Rector given life in prison for child’s murder
A Bullhead City man cried throughout a Friday hearing in Kingman before he was given a life prison term for killing his friend’s eight-year-old daughter nearly five years ago. Justin Rector, 31, pleaded guilty last December to first degree murder in the asphyxiation death of Isabella (Bella) Grogan-Cannella. Rector told investigators early in the case that he had been up for a couple of days and using methamphetamine when Bella went missing. Her partially-clad body was found in a makeshift grave about a half mile from her home in September, 2014. His father, daughter and two sisters addressed the Court,…