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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Susan Haigh

Jury convicts New York man for 1993 killing following third trial in the case

US Murdered Mother - (Copyright 2026 The Buffalo News)

A jury on Friday convicted a man in the 1993 killing of a woman near Buffalo, ending his third trial after a legal odyssey that has stretched on for decades.

Brian Scott Lorenz, 56, was originally convicted in 1994, along with another man, James Pugh, of murdering Deborah Meindl. The 33-year-old nursing student and mother of two had been stabbed dozens of times and strangled inside her home in Tonawanda that year. Her body was found by her 10-year-old daughter.

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