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 screen. It was Mother’s Day 2024, and Kim Osborne was in the process of breaking off ...
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 of his life behind bars. The co-defendants, Arlo Romano, 44, of Morgantown and Cleotis Cortez-Paul Eppes Jr, 49, of the Detroit area, ...
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 County Justice Center Tuesday afternoon. Shortly after 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, a jury of nine women and three men ...
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 the jury as they begin their deliberations Tuesday morning at the Monongalia County Justice Center. Eppes is charged with murder in the first ...
Prosecutors Gabrielle “Gabe” Mucciola and Brandon Benchoff rested their case Friday afternoon in the first-degree murder trial of Cleotis Eppes, confident they presented enough evidence over three days of testimony to meet the state’s burden of proof for a guilty verdict. Defense ...
Testimony continued Thursday in the trial of Cleotis Cortez-Paul Eppes, Jr, 49, who faces charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. Victim Matthew Moore was found lying face-down in the middle of Round Bottom Road which runs behind Ashton Estates off of Smithtown Road ...