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Last updated on Tuesday, February 20, 2018
(BLOOMFIELD) - A Greene County Circuit Court jury deliberated for about three hours returning a guilty verdict in the murder trial of William Levi Abel.
Abel, 25, was found guilty for the murder of 21-year-old Chase Aliano of Bedford on January 31, 2017. The jury also found him guilty of obstruction of justice and theft of a firearm.
Abel shot and killed Aliano, covering up the crime by hiding Aliano's vehicle, burning his own and Aliano's clothes and burying Aliano's body.
The investigation started on February 3, 2017 when Steve Aliano, Chase's father, reported his son missing to the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department. Chase had last been seen on January 31, 2016 at Abel's farm in Bloomfield. His family says Chase was there to sell Abel a firearm.
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