MONTICELLO, Ill. (AP) — A 57-year-old eastern Illinois man has been found guilty in the 1990 slaying of his wife.
A Piatt County jury deliberated less than three hours Thursday before convicting Gregory Houser of first-degree murder.
Houser of Monticello was arrested last September. Monticello is about 20 mile southwest of Champaign.
Sheryl Ann Houser was 29 when her 6-year-old son found her strangled with a rope around her neck in the garage of her home near Mahomet in October 1990. Mahomet is 10 miles northwest of Champaign.
The Housers were in the process of divorcing.
