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CADIZ Samuel Farnsworth likely will spend the next 13 years behind bars after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 40-year-old Sherry Lynn Shrieve of Bellaire.
Farnsworth is set to be sentenced March 16.
According to officials, Shrieve had been shot to death and her body was discovered in March 2020 along a road outside New Athens, about 1 mile from the Belmont/Harrison county line.
Farnsworth, 48, of 451 N. Main St., Cadiz, originally was charged with murder and abuse of a corpse.
He pleaded guilty to first-degree felony voluntary manslaughter with a gun specification before Harrison County Common Pleas Judge T. Shawn Hervey. The gun specification carries a three-year penalty to be added the 10-year manslaughter sentence.
ROBERT A. DEFRANK For The Intelligencer
CADIZ Samuel Farnsworth likely will spend the next 13 years behind bars after he pleaded guilty Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter in the death of 40-year-old Sherry Lynn Shrieve of Bellaire.
Farnsworth is set to be sentenced March 16.
According to officials, Shrieve had been shot to death and her body was discovered in March 2020 along a road outside New Athens, about 1 mile from the Belmont/Harrison county line.
Farnsworth, 48, of 451 N. Main St., Cadiz, originally was charged with murder and abuse of a corpse.
He pleaded guilty to first-degree felony voluntary manslaughter with a gun specification before Harrison County Common Pleas Judge T. Shawn Hervey. The gun specification carries a three-year penalty to be added the 10-year manslaughter sentence.