Missouri man convicted in killing of woman found in landfill

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Photo: St. Louis police investigate after a body was discovered at a landfill in Marissa on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017. Photo courtesy KTVI

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis man has been convicted in the death of a woman whose body was dumped in an Illinois landfill. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 54-year-old Paulren Stepter was convicted Wednesday of first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 23-year-old Brandy Morrison. Police say he killed her in his home in January 2017 before dumping her corpse in a nearby bin. Her body later was found in a landfill in Marissa, Illinois. He was acquitted of abandoning Morrison’s body and evidence tampering.Stepter also is awaiting trial in the December 2016 killing of 40-year-old Arnold Adams in St. Louis, his third murder case.

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