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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Westmoreland County, PA) A verdict was recently reached in the murder trial of a Westmoreland County woman who disappeared in 2018. A jury found Thomas Stanko guilty of first-degree murder and reckless burning in connection with the death of his girlfriend, Cassandra Gross of Unity Township. Stanko was found not guilty on a charge of third-degree murder, even though he will be sentenced within the next three months. Gross was never found after she went missing on April 7th, 2018 and a judge then declared her legally dead about nine months later.