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Amy Hurst's daughter, Lisa Stewart, left, niece, Laura Shampine, and son, Jeff Earley, right, react as a guilty verdict is read in William Hurst's murder trial Thursday afternoon. More than 30 years after Amy Rose Hurst was killed and dumped in the Gulf of Mexico, a jury on Thursday convicted her husband of first-degree murder.
William Hurst, 61, will spend the rest of his life in a Florida prison.
Amy Rose Hurst, a 29-year-old mother of two, disappeared from her New Port Richey home in September 1982. A fishing boat crew found her body the next month several miles off the coast of Anna Maria Island. Her body, wrapped in an afghan and a green bedspread, was tied to a concrete block.
Amy Hurst's daughter, Lisa Stewart, left, niece, Laura Shampine, and son, Jeff Earley, right, react as a guilty verdict is read in William Hurst's murder trial Thursday afternoon. More than 30 years after Amy Rose Hurst was killed and dumped in the Gulf of Mexico, a jury on Thursday convicted her husband of first-degree murder.
William Hurst, 61, will spend the rest of his life in a Florida prison.
Amy Rose Hurst, a 29-year-old mother of two, disappeared from her New Port Richey home in September 1982. A fishing boat crew found her body the next month several miles off the coast of Anna Maria Island. Her body, wrapped in an afghan and a green bedspread, was tied to a concrete block.
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