NATION : Cult Leader Guilty of 5 Murders
A religious cult leader was convicted today of killing a family of five last year and burying them on a farm where his group lived.
A Lake County Common Pleas Court jury deliberated just three hours and 15 minutes before rendering the verdict against Jeffrey Lundgren.
He showed no emotion when the verdict was read by Judge Martin O. Park. Lundgren, 40, could be sentenced to death. A sentencing date was not announced.
Earlier today, Lundgren’s wife, Alice, 39, was sentenced to five consecutive life prison terms for the murders that she blamed on her husband.
Jeffrey Lundgren was charged with five counts each of aggravated murder and kidnaping in the deaths last year of Dennis Avery, his wife and three young daughters. All five had been bound, gagged and shot to death, then dumped into a common grave.
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