GUILTY OH - Michael Fish, 25, found murdered, Clinton County, 15 Dec 2005

A man is murdered in one part of the Tri-State, and his body is later found miles away. Now, a suspect is behind bars.

Jeffrey Elberle, 27, was locked up in the Clermont County Jail late Friday night on an aggravated murder charge.

Michael Fish, 25, vanished December 15th from Sharonville. He was last seen with friends.

Police found evidence leading them to believe that Elberle murdered Fish about 30 miles away in Pierce Township. Fish's body was discovered Thursday in Clinton County.
http://www.wkrc.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=BF26C8A7-573D-4418-8FA8-6ADF7BAB4C1F

A 25-year-old man whose body was found Thursday died of blunt force trauma, according to a coroner's report.

Michael Fish, of Sharonville, was last seen in mid-December with some friends, but he'd been missing ever since.

His body was found in Clinton County and released to the Miami Valley Crime Laboratory, which ruled that Fish's death was a homicide.
http://www.channelcincinnati.com/health/5891106/detail.html

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/01/06/fish.html

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2006/local/01/06/body.html

A man accused of the brutal murder of another man broke into tears in a Batavia courtroom Thursday morning, as his attorney enters his not guilty plea.
http://www.wkrc.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=51296D6D-02F6-4C15-A7F9-C288CB57BBF7

From what I am hearing on TV, Fish was first beaten, then set on fire alive. Then Eberle, finished him off with a shovel.

From August 2013:

http://www.ca6.uscourts.gov/opinions.pdf/13a0735n-06.pdf

In September 2006, Jeffrey Eberle pled guilty in an Ohio court to aggravated murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole...

Jeffrey Eberle pled guilty in September 2006 to aggravated murder under Ohio state law. Represented by counsel, Eberle admitted that he “purposely and with prior calculation” caused the death of Michael Fish. Eberle specifically agreed that on the night of December 14, 2005, he and Jason Evick took Fish to a secluded location where Eberle assaulted Fish with a shovel. Fish died of blunt force trauma.

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