A California man was convicted Wednesday in his girlfriend’s
murder, 18 months after the crime occurred, according
to the CBS Sacramento.
Stockton
authorities say that 37-year-old Devon
Omar Epps killed his live-in girlfriend and placed her corpse in his
apartment’s bathtub where it remained until being evicted in December of 2011.
Soon after, the rotting body was discovered and Epps was arrested and charged
with murder two days later.
A
coroner’s report revealed that Veronica
Jones was beaten with a metal table pedestal, raped, and stabbed 32
times.
On Wednesday, a jury found Epps guilty of all charges, including premeditated
murder, use of a weapon other than a firearm, murder by torture, corporal
injury to a spouse and rape.
At
Epps’ trial, Jones’ family members said they reported Jones missing in July
2011, a month after she mysteriously disappeared. Police, according to Jones’
brother, were largely unresponsive. “The only thing they told me is that it’s
not a crime to be missing, that they have a right not to talk to family or
friends, and she was basically not missing,” Jones’ brother, Issac Zuniga, said while on the witness
stand.
The
judge also ordered a mental evaluation for Epps because of his erratic behavior
during part of the court proceedings. He will appear in court again Thursday
for the sanity phase of his trial. Victor, another of brother of Jones, says
Epps’ behavior was all an act.
“He was playing a game, acting like he was crazy so
he wouldn’t have to pay for the torture he put her through.
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The
LORD shall smite thee with madness, and blindness, and astonishment of heart:
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[So
that] the man [that is] tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be
evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the
remnant of his children which he shall leave:
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And
thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night,
and shalt have none assurance
of thy life:
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