LANSING — An Ingham County jury found a 57-year-old Lansing man guilty of second-degree murder in the 2021 death of Andrew Watson, a case local prosecutors won despite the fact that Watson’s body has never been recovered.
The verdict against Willie James Jr. was delivered in the courtroom of Ingham County Circuit Judge Rosemarie Aquilina, marking the conclusion of a trial that hinged on circumstantial evidence.
James, already a state prisoner, faces a mandatory consecutive sentence because he was on parole at the time of the killing…