LLOYD GROVES

LOCK HAVEN – A state Superior Court panel has affirmed the third-degree murder conviction and sentence in a 1991 Clinton County cold case in which the body never has been found.

There was overwhelmingly circumstantial evidence for a jury to find Loyd W. Groves killed Katherine Dolan Heckel, 40, on July 15, 1991, the opinion written by president Judge Jack A. Panella states.

Further information will be available in tomorrow’s edition of The Express.