SEK woman given prison time for 2020 double murder

A woman from southeast Kansas has been given a 27.5-year prison sentence stemming from a 2020 double homicide.

32-year-old Kimberly Blizzard, of McCune, was given a 330-month sentence in Cherokee County District Court this week after pleading guilty to two counts of 2nd Degree Intentional Murder.

On Sunday, June 14th , 2020, Cherokee County Sheriff’s Investigators and KBI Agents responded to a rural area north of Columbus, after the bodies of Blaze Swank and Kylan Shook were discovered.

The following day law enforcement located and apprehended Mark Hopkins II for his role in the murders.

On Tuesday, June 16, 2020, Blizzard was taken into custody in connection with the case.

In December, 2021, Hopkins was sentenced to life imprisonment.