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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Sparta Township, PA)  According to authorities, a man found guilty of murdering a pregnant Amish woman inside her Pennsylvania home last year received two life sentences on Monday. A news release on Monday from the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General confirms that fifty-three-year-old Shawn Cranston got sentenced that day. Cranston was given charges in June of 2025 of first-degree murder, second-degree murder of an unborn child and charges related to those two charges. The judge sentenced Cranston to the mandatory life-without-parole sentence for the conviction of first degree-murder and another life sentence in prison. Cranston received a conviction for allegedly killing twenty-three-year-old Rebekah Byler at her home in Sparta Township on February 26th, 2024. According to authorities, Cranston shot and stabbed Byler to death after encountering her during a robbery of her home on Fish Flats Road. A previously showed autopsy showed Byler passed away of a gunshot wound to the head as well as sharp injuries.