GUILTY WV - Stephen Tamburo, 62, Berkeley Springs, 7 December 2008

...State police will use DNA to try and identify the badly decomposed body found by a mushroom hunter on Saturday, April 25 ...

...Corporal A.T. Peer, the lead investigator, thinks the body may be that of Stephen John Tamburo, Sr. ...

...It will probably be three months before we get results... (DNA testing)

...Police are still seeking Tamburo’s son — Stephen John Tamburo, Jr. — as a person of interest...

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Investigations into missing person, death cases continue
By TRISH RUDDER
July 7, 2009

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Stephen J. Tamburo Jr. of Morgan County has been missing since December.

In April, the body of a white male was found in the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management Area close to the Morgan -Berkeley County line. That body has not been identified.
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An autopsy by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Charleston, W.Va., determined that the unidentified man died about two months before his body was found and that he did not die of natural causes.

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Police say body is missing W.Va. man
By TRISH RUDDER
July 25, 2009

BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. — A body found in April in the Sleepy Creek Wildlife Management area was identified Friday as Stephen J. Tamburo, who has been missing since December.

Tamburo’s sister, Rosemarie Martin of Westminster, Md., said Dr. James Kaplan of the West Virginia Medical Examiner’s Office called her Friday afternoon.

Tamburo’s body was found April 25 near the Berkeley County-Morgan County line and has been in the state medical examiner’s office for 13 weeks.

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A Berkeley Springs man who entered an Alford plea to a charge of first-degree murder in the December 2008 death of his father was sentenced Monday to life in prison with mercy...

A conviction of first-degree murder with mercy carries a 40-year sentence with eligibility for parole after 15 years...

The family was hurt by the fact that Tamburo took his father’s life and even more hurt that he buried the body, which was not found until months later... The cause of death was four gunshot wounds to his body...

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