TACOMA, Wash. – A woman who cut up her ex-boyfriend with a chain saw 31 years ago was convicted in Tacoma of murder.
The 55-year-old Renee Ray Curtiss will be sentenced April 24 in for the 1978 killing of Joseph Tarricone at a home near Puyallup.
The News Tribune of Tacoma reports the Pierce County Superior Court jury took about three hours Wednesday to return the verdict.
Her brother, 60-year-old Nicholas Notaro, also has been convicted of murder in the case in February and will be sentenced Friday.
Curtiss testified she helped cut up the body but denied asking her brother to carry out the shooting.
They buried the body in the yard. It was dug up in 2007 by workers clearing the property for a strip mall.
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