WAYNESVILLE, Mo. -- After three hours and fifteen minutes of deliberation Saturday, a jury decided Justin Brown should serve a life sentence for the murder of a Cape Girardeau County man.
Brown, 26, was convicted of first-degree murder earlier this week in the July 7, 2002, abduction and killing of Ralph Lee Lape Jr., 54.
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