KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man accused in the beating death of a woman five years ago was found guilty of murder, Jackson County prosecutors said Thursday.
A judge on Wednesday found Kevin O. Hurley, 62, guilty of second-degree murder in connectionwith the death of 42-year-old Brandy K. Castaneda, according to Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker.
Hurley will be sentenced at a later date, Peters Baker said.
Castaneda was reported missing on Dec. 23, 2015, though her family said she hadn’t been seen since Dec. 5. Her body was found two weeks later in the 4900 block of Brooklyn Avenue inside a trash bag.
Her cause of death was determined to be blunt force trauma. A DNA sample taken from her ankle was linked to Hurley, who had been convicted on a separate murder charge and released on parole in 2013.
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