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A man has been found guilty of slaying a Mesa woman. He was fond guilty after a DNA sample of the victim's broken fingernail found him guilty.

He has been sentenced to life-time imprisonment. He is unlikely to get a parole for first-degree murder.

Superior Court Judge Joseph Kreamer also adjudged 33-year-old Jeremy Cardwell to 15 years in jail for burglary in the death of Tanya Mors, 48, who was found dead in her Dobson Ranch home on Feb. 25, 2012.

Police found the eyes of the dead body of Mors, a property-rental agent, covered in pennies. Autopsy revealed that she had been stiffled to death. Police never found out on why pennies were placed on Mors' eyes.

Jeremy Bogart, Cardwell's defense attorney, said that his client had been convinced to participate in the slaying by Michael Mors, Tanya Mors' ex-husband, who died of liver cancer more than a year after her slaying.

AW: Suchorita Choudhury