Jury hands down guilty verdict in 2011 slaying of Portage woman

VALPARAISO, Ind.—Jurors returned a guilty verdict Tuesday in the murder trial of a 20-year-old arrested at an IU tailgate.

Dustin McCowan of Union Township, Porter County was arrested in Bloomington in September 2011.  

McCowan was convicted of shooting his 19-year-old former girlfriend, Amanda Bach, in the throat at close range and dumping her body by the Canadian National Railroad tracks less than 300 feet from his home. He was 18 at the time of the incident.

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