Truck Driver Convicted In Fatal Killing Of PA Amish Woman

A jury convicted a 53-year-old truck driver last week of shooting to death a pregnant Amish woman inside her rural Pennsylvania home early last year. Shawn Cranston was charged a few weeks after Rebekah Byler, 23, was found dead in the living room of her rural Spartansburg home. Cranston was convicted in Crawford County of first-degree murder, second-degree murder of an unborn child, and related offenses. He is scheduled for sentencing in late July. Investigators have said they began to focus on Cranston within a day of the killing, and took several items during a search of his home in Corry, about 8 miles from Spartansburg. It’s believed the murder occurred while Cranston was attempting to burglarize the home, and he killed Rebekak when she began to scream…

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