ebevins@newsandsentinel.com James Thomas Hendershot is handcuffed by a bailiff Thursday after being found guilty of second-degree murder and concealing a deceased human body at the conclusion of a four-day trial held in City Council chambers at the Parkersburg Municipal Building. (Photo by Evan Bevins) Assistant Wood County Prosecutor Russell Skogstad offers a rebuttal to the defense’s closing argument Thursday during the trial of James Thomas Hendershot on charges of second-degree murder and concealing a deceased human body. The trial was held in City Council chambers at the Parkersburg Municipal Building to accommodate social distancing measures. (Photo by Evan Bevins)
PARKERSBURG Taking the stand Wednesday on the third day of his murder trial, James Thomas Hendershot denied harming his father and claimed he remembers li
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James T. Hendershot and Assistant Public Defenders Andrew Hilber and Reggie Bailey stand as the guilty verdicts are read Thursday in council chambers at the Parkersburg Municipal Building.
James Thomas Hendershot, 38, Parkersburg, was found guilty of second-degree murder and concealing deceased human body today.
He was convicted of the January 2018 murder of his father, James C. Hendershot, who was found by a member of the family in his house on Liberty Street.
Trial began Monday in Parkersburg City Council chambers so social-distancing measures can be observed
Read the story in The News and Sentinel on Friday.
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