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Teenager receives
life sentence
By Casey
Clapper
Staff Writer
casey.s.clapper.1@ohio.edu
A teenager
charged with killing a Plains woman pleaded guilty in Athens
County Common Pleas Court on December 10.
Denver L. Shover
IV, 17, pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated murder
with two specifications of aggravated burglary and aggravated
robbery, said C. David Warren, Athens County prosecuting attorney.
He received a life
sentence with parole eligibility in 30 years.
"It was originally
a motion to suppress, but we struck a deal the day before
and had a three-judge panel in," Warren said.
Shover plead guilty
to the March 6 killing of Mary Jo Stalder, 10465 Salem Road,
and stealing her 1996 dark green Buick. Shover then drove
to Dawson Springs, Ky., where he met Bobby Joe Newberry, said
Athens County Sheriff Vern Castle.
Stalder's daughter
found her 62-year-old mother dead at the mother's residence
at about 7 a.m. Stalder suffered severe cut-wounds to her
neck, Castle said.
The daughter went
to the residence because Bill Stalder, the victim's husband,
was concerned when he could not reach her on the phone.
Newberry, who was
charged with receiving stolen property, and Shover were driving
Stalder's car when Houston police arrested them on March 7,
Warren said.
Stalder worked
three days a week as a private assistant at The Lindley Inn,
9000 Hocking Hills Drive, an assisted living home in The Plains,
administrator Becky Norway said.
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