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Fort Worth man convicted of murder in case with no body
More State FORT WORTH -- A Tarrant County jury found a 41-year-old Fort Worth man guilty today of murder in the disappearance of a 51-year-old General Motors assembly plant worker.
The penalty phase of 41-year-old Rodney Owens' trial has now begun. He's accused of murdering 51-year-old former neighbor Glenda Gail Furch, who hasn't been seen since dead or alive since Sept. 28, 2007.
Prosecutors lacked a body to support their case. Police linked Furch's disappearance to Owens with a thumbprint on duct tape found in a trash bin outside her apartment. Police say they also found in the same trash bag electrical and telephone cords tied in unusual knots, a towel, clothes and other items belonging to Furch.
About a week after she disappeared, Furch's car was found burned at an abandoned car wash.
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