SPOKANE, Wash. — A couple pleaded guilty on Thursday morning to the 2020 murder of a 19-year-old.
Andrew Sorenson was found stabbed to death in the trunk of a car in North Spokane in 2021. He had gone missing roughly a year before in 2020.
John Eisenman, who is in his 60s, was arrested for the murder in 2021.
According to court documents, he told police he kidnapped and killed the 19-year-old after Sorenson sold his daughter, who he was in a relationship with, into a sex trafficking ring in Seattle.
Eisenman said he and his fiancee, Brenda Kross, rescued his daughter and brought her back to Spokane in 2020.
Spokane Police Department said in 2021 there was no evidence that Sorenson had trafficked Eisenman’s daughter.
In November 2020, Eisenman confronted Sorenson in Airway Heights. He said he abducted him, hit him in the head with a cinderblock, stabbed him to death and put him in the trunk of Kross’ car.
He then abandoned the car in north Spokane County where it was later stolen and moved to a neighborhood in East Spokane.
Kross, who is in her 50s, was arrested for the murder in 2022.
On Thursday, Kross pleaded guilty to first-degree manslaughter, and Eisenman to first-degree murder with a weapon.
Both are punishable with life and prison.
For Sorenson’s family, it was justice four years in the making.
His mother, Theresa told 4 News Now the look forward to seeing sentencing.
Eisenman and Kross’ sentencings are set for January 16.
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