For about seven years a man thought he got away with killing his girlfriend on an Amtrak train as they traveled across the country.
But a Colorado jury on Friday ensured that wouldn’t be the case.
Angelo Valentino Mantych, 43, was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 28-year-old Marina Placensia aboard a train from Wisconsin to Denver back in 2016. It took seven years to charge Mantych as initial autopsy results could not pinpoint a cause and manner of death…