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For: Real America News Updated 09 Feb 2022, 45: 45 pm EST
A man beat his neighbor to death and burned down her house , all because of an argument about a fence.
Pavel Samsinak, aged 48, was sentenced on Friday for murdering her neighbor Alice Hale, aged 66, after a dispute over a fence that he was building between his house and a vacant lot in Springfield, Missouri.
According to court documents, after an argument over which side of the property line the fence was built on, Samsinak beat Hale to death with a baseball bat. baseball in September 2020.
Samsinak, owner of a now-closed personal training gym called Czech Us Out, later set Hale’s house on fire with his body inside to destroy evidence and watched the house burn from a store’s parking lot. nearby, according to trial testimony.
When first responders arrived at the house fire, they located Hale’s body, but found the circumstances surrounding his death suspicious.
During the death investigation, Samsinak was identified as a homicide suspect.
According to the Green County Prosecutor’s Office, evidence shown to the jury at the murder trial included testimony from other neighbors who placed Samsinak at the crime scene arguing with Hale.
The jury was also presented with surveillance video from the convenience store, as well as evidence of Samsinak’s cell phone and evidence of Hale’s blood found on the driver’s seat belt in his truck.
The jury deliberated during 45 minutes before meeting r the Springfield man guilty of all four charged felonies: second-degree murder, armed criminal action, second-degree arson, and tampering with physical evidence.
Judge Becky Borthwick set a sentencing hearing for the 09 May, where Samsinak will also receive a sentence evaluation report from the Department of Probation and Parole.
Samsinak, who is a native of the Czech Republic according to his Facebook, He could face life in prison for second-degree murder.
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