Man convicted of murder in '83 disappearance of Michigan man - Danbury News Times

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Nov. 18, 2022Updated: Nov. 18, 2022 1:25 p.m.

WHITE CLOUD, Mich. (AP) — A assemblage convicted a antheral of execution successful the disappearance of a occidental Michigan antheral whose assemblage inactive has not been recovered aft astir 40 years.

Richard Atwood was 25 successful 1983 erstwhile helium was past seen successful White Cloud successful Newaygo County, 45 miles northbound of Grand Rapids.

Roy Snell, who was 18 astatine that clip and surviving successful the area, was recovered blameworthy Wednesday of committing execution during different crime.

Jurors were told that Atwood was known arsenic idiosyncratic who sold marijuana successful the White Cloud area. Snell's DNA was recovered connected cigaret butts successful Atwood's car. Investigators said robbery was a imaginable motive.

“I’m grateful we tin yet supply justness for the victim’s family,” Attorney General Dana Nessel said. “Investigating a decades-old acold lawsuit without a assemblage is precise challenging.”

Snell, present 57, was arrested successful Hennepin County, Minnesota, successful 2020. He was splitting his clip betwixt Ohio and Minnesota, defence lawyer Stephanie Koorndyk said.

“Everything was precise circumstantial,” she said Friday. “There was nary body. There was nary execution weapon. I don't deliberation we'll ever genuinely cognize what happened.”

The grounds included incriminating statements made by Snell erstwhile helium was successful a Grand Rapids-area jailhouse years ago.

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