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Guilty verdict in Craigslist murder trial

Updated: Tuesday, 12 Mar 2013, 6:55 PM EDT
Published : Tuesday, 12 Mar 2013, 5:34 PM EDT

AKRON, Ohio (AP) -  

A self-styled street preacher accused in a deadly plot to lure men with Craigslist job offers in Ohio and then rob them has been found guilty of aggravated murder and could face the death penalty.
 
A jury in Akron returned the verdict Tuesday in the case against Richard Beasley.
 
Two men from Ohio and one from Norfolk, Virginia were slain. A man from South Carolina was shot but survived.
 
Prosecutors labeled the 53-year-old Beasley the trigger man in the 2011 plot with a high school student, who was convicted and sentenced last year to life in prison without the chance of parole.
 
The teenage co-defendant had said he feared for his safety if he didn't cooperate with Beasley.
 
Beasley's lawyers had said investigators targeted him based only on a hunch. They said the identity theft and robbery motives prosecutors offered were baseless.
 
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