GUILTY FL - Billy Shuler 69, Pasco County, 21 May 2014

Deputies say the wife of 69-year-old Billy Shuler reported him missing Thursday after he was last seen at their house Wednesday at 11 a.m., when he left to visit an acquaintance in Holiday.

Shuler’s truck was located outside a storage facility at 5334 Provost Drive, Holiday, and evidence found inside the truck suggests foul play, deputies say.

Shuler was meeting 51-year-old Anthony Maresca, of Holiday, possibly for a transaction on collectible coins, deputies say.

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The investigation is treating the death as a homicide at this time. Police say detectives from the Pasco County Sheriff's Office were working on an investigation in the area when they located the body.

There's no word on whether the body is connected to Billy Shuler, an area coin collector who vanished earlier in the week.

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Terry Martin was standing by a table with a picture of his best friend as collectors and dealers with the West Hernando Coin Club set up their stalls inside the Elks Lodge banquet hall. He picked up a microphone and began to speak.

"There's one of us no longer here," he said. "We're missing a warm, smiling personality. And that's the great personality of Bill Shuler."

They all knew Shuler. He was an avid dealer and club member who never missed the coin shows. He never cussed, Martin said, and he was always smiling.

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Authorities have been looking for Anthony Maresca for a long time. Detectives say he’s been on a bank robbery spree since November.

Monday, a Palm Harbor motel proved to be the end of the road for the accused serial bank robber. Maresca was taken in to custody at Kings Inn by Pinellas County sheriff’s deputies...

Maresca wasn’t just wanted for robbery. Deputies say he's a suspect in the murder of 69-year-old Bill Shuler, a Citrus County coin collector... Maresca has not been charged in Shuler's murder but remains the only suspect.

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Detectives said they had been waiting for the results of DNA tests to come back before charging Maresca with murder, which they did on Wednesday.

"We had Anthony Maresca's fingerprint in Billy Shuler's blood on a coin envelope, located inside Billy Shuler's truck," described Detective Daniel Toner. "We also had other evidence that identified Anthony Maresca's DNA being on clothing that was worn at the time [by Shuler]."

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A federal grand jury indicted a Holiday man Thursday on eight counts related to the robberies of multiple banks in Pinellas, Pasco and Hernando Counties since November 2014.

Anthony Maresca, 53, could face up to life in prison if convicted, the U.S. Attorney's Office reported.

But he was also charged last July with first-degree murder in the 2014 death of Citrus County coin dealer Billy Shuler, and that case is still pending in Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Court, with the next hearing set for February.

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A man awaiting trial for a 2014 Pasco County murder was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in federal prison for a series of bank robberies that happened months after the killing.

Anthony Maresca, 54, robbed eight banks in six months in Pasco and Pinellas Counties. In each case, he walked into a bank armed with a handgun and demanded cash.

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The wait for justice is finally over for the family of a Citrus County coin dealer, after the man responsible for killing 69-year-old Billy Shuler will spend 40-years behind bars for Shuler’s murder.

A Pasco County Jury found 54-year-old Anthony Maresca guilty of murder and other unrelated charges on May 19th.

Citrus County Officials shared Mrs. Shuler’s comments after the conviction, stating, “The bullet went through his head and straight into my heart as he was everything to me.”

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