MORGANTOWN – Rose Osborne was sitting at her kitchen table that day in November 2024 when she heard the knocking at her door. The woman who waited seven months for […]
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GUILTY: Jury returns verdict in Nevera murder trial
MORGANTOWN – Joe Nevera has been found guilty of first-degree murder in the 2024 slaying of Kim Osborne, his one-time girlfriend and domestic partner. A jury of five women and […]
Prosecution rests in Nevera trial
MORGANTOWN – Kim Osborne had fresh bruises on her neck the night she told police Joe Nevera strangled her. That was on Jan. 21, 2022, when Sgt. John Cunningham of […]
Nevera Trial Day 4: Of domestic abuse, soiled boots and the deal that didn’t happen
MORGANTOWN – The motivations of Joe Nevera’s one-time best friend John Claburn were key to both the prosecution and defense Friday, in the fourth day of Nevera’s trial for murder […]
Nevera to friend: ‘I killed her’
MORGANTOWN – John Claburn went clammy with shock when he regarded Joe Nevera’s passenger on the evening of May 12, 2024. It was the lifeless body of Kim Osborne, he […]
Nevera murder trial: Second day focuses on fights, drug-dealing and the initial mystery of it all
MORGANTOWN – Michael Kief took a long, methodical look inside the Chevrolet truck Kim Osborne had been driving on Mother’s Day 2024, when she was last seen alive. It was […]
‘Honey, he’s going to hurt you some day’: Testimony in Nevera murder trial begins
MORGANTOWN – Joseph Nevera sat expressionless in a Monongalia County courtroom Monday afternoon while convenience store video surveillance of the woman he is accused of murdering was projected onto a […]
No mercy for man convicted of murdering Matthew Moore
Two men have now been convicted of the May 2022 murder of Matthew Moore on Round Bottom Road in Monongalia County – and one of them will spend the rest […]
Eppes found guilty in 2022 murder of Matthew Moore
Cleotis Cortez-Paul Eppes Jr., 49, of the Detroit, Mich., area, appeared nervous as he entered the courtroom of the Honorable Paul W. Gwaltney on the third floor of the Monongalia […]
Murder suspect takes stand in own defense, claims alibi
The fate of Cleotis Eppes, 49, the Detroit area man accused in the May 2022 murder of Matthew Moore, now lies in the hands of the 12 men and women of […]
