1994 Dismemberment Case Solved With Conviction

A Boone County Courtroom erupted in applause when a judge found Raymond Clutter of Warsaw, Ky., guilty of the murder and tampering with evidence in the April 1994 murder of Peggy Casey of Covington, Ky. The same judge found Clutter not guilty of rape.

Casey was last seen in a bar in downtown Covington in the early morning hours of April 2, 1994.

The mother of four children was reportedly taken to a mobile home, raped and had her throat slit. Then her body was cut into seven parts, placed in plastic trash bags and dumped in rural locations in Miami, Clark and Champaign counties, according to the Boone County prosecutor's office.

After 16 years, the upper torso of Casey has still not been located, according to the Miami County, Ohio, Sheriff's Department.

Clutter will be sentenced on Aug, 20. He faces 20 to 50 years or life in prison.

The lower torso of Casey was first body part found on the afternoon of April 2 by a fisherman under a bridge along a creek bank off Rusk Road, about four miles northeast of Troy, Ohio.

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