‘They bragged about it, they all need to go away’; Family members discuss first conviction and Chaviz’s impact

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — “I think that the jury made the right decision,” Chea Nguyen said just hours after a Greene County jury recommended the harshest sentences for each charge 21-year-old Elysha Bedell was convicted of.

Bedell was convicted Thursday in the 2023 murder of Chea’s son, Chaviz Nguyen.

“I was kind of nervous, and at the same time, this kind of relief because that’s what we expected the verdict to be,” Chea said…

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