BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) -- A woman whose husband is accused of killing her cousin has pleaded no contest to an accessory charge and is scheduled to be sentenced next month. Noralina Vasquez-Hernandez pleaded no contest in October, according to court records. She's set for sentencing on Dec. 10. She allegedly used bleach and other cleaning materials to wipe down their apartment on Normandy Drive after the killing, court documents say. Her husband, Jaime Regalado-Avalos, 44, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Claudia Morales Vazquez, 33. His next hearing is in February. Vazquez had been staying with the couple when her body was discovered in an almond orchard on the morning of April 26 about a half-mile north of Superior Road and Stockdale Highway, according to court documents. That afternoon, California Highway Patrol officers stopped the couple at a rest stop in Lebec. The couple’s children told investigators they were headed to Mexico. Interviewed separately, the couple claimed there’d been an argument and Vazquez had been kicked out, according to the filings. Regalado-Avalos told investigators he drove her to the Greyhound station and she left. His wife gave a different account after detectives accused her of lying. She said they'd been drinking and Regalado-Avalos became upset when Vazquez started asking him personal questions. She said the two exchanged words, and Regalado-Avalos broke Vazquez's phone. Her husband then ordered Vasquez-Hernandez to go to their bedroom and shut the door, Vasquez-Hernandez told investigators. She did, but emerged a short time later after hearing what sounded like someone gasping for air, the filings say. “Vasquez-Hernandez said she opened the door and saw (Vazquez) on the ground, on her back,” an investigator wrote. “Regalado-Avalos was standing over her with his right foot pushing down on the left side of (Vazquez’s) neck.” Vasquez-Hernandez said she removed her husband’s foot, but he grabbed a knife and ordered her back to the bedroom. She didn’t interfere further. Her husband later carried Vazquez from the apartment, she told investigators.