After 7 hours of deliberation, the jury came back with a verdict in the murder of Praveen

Virgis.

The jury found Gage Bethune guilty of one count of first-degree felony murder in the 2014

death of Praveen Virgis.

Even though a jury found Gage Bethune guilty of murder, the judge decided to overturn the verdict.

I'm John Taylor with the Twisted Podcast, and I'm Javier Leyvo with the Pretend Podcast.

This is Criminal Contact, season 4, getting away with murder.

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Five days after Praveen went missing, please discover his body frozen in the woods,

but they didn't just stumble upon his body. The police were tipped off. Here's local radio host

Monica Zookas. There was a chip. Well, his cousin called and told on him for the reward.

The chipster that called and said, my cousin got in a fight with him. Can I get that money? I know

where he's at. He's in the woods by a b-dance. This statement is being paid to serve, and this is with

your provision. Why don't you just tell us about right here tonight?

The police interview has some poor quality and it's tough to make out, but we do have the transcript.

The carbon bill police detectives are interviewing an individual by the name of Jonathan Stanley.

Javier, he told detectives that he saw a report on TV about a missing S.I.U. student

and that the family had put up a $15,000 reward. So he basically just decided to cash in on

this reward money? It seemed like that was at least part of his motivation. But you know what,

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