STOCKTON, Calif. – A Stockton man prosecutors say lived with his girlfriend’s rotting corpse for several months has been convicted of murder.
Sacramento television station CBS-13 reports that San Joaquin County jurors Wednesday found Devon Epps guilty of murder, as well as murder by torture, rape and other charges.
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Epps was arrested after an apartment manager found the badly decomposed body of 35-year-old Veronica Jones in a bathtub when he went to evict Epps in December 2011.
At the time, Jones had been missing for six months.
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The 37-year-old Epps is due back in court today for the sanity phase of the trial.
Prosecutors say a judge ordered a mental evaluation for Epps the first time he appeared in court because of his behaviour.
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