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GUILTY: Man accused of dumping woman's body in McKay Bay found guilty

Katherine Langford
Editor-in-Chief · Wednesday, November 4, 2026 at 10:31 PM · 1 min read
GUILTY: Man accused of dumping woman's body in McKay Bay found guilty

Jury finds man accused of killing a 47-year-old woman and dumping her body in McKay Bay guilty.Robert Kessler, 74, was arrested in 2021 for the death of Stephanie Crone-Overholts. Crone-Overholts body was discovered by a fisherman in Nov. 2021.Tampa Police arrested Kessler, who is accused of murdering Crone-Overholts in his home where she was staying in 2021.On Nov. 4, the jury found Kessler guilty of murder in the second degree and abuse of a dead human body.Kessler had no reaction when the verdict was read, according to a Tampa Bay 28 photojournalist at the courthouse.Kessler was his own attorney in the murder case, the State Attorneys Office said.He was sentenced to life in prison for the second-degree murder conviction.

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