Cleveland man convicted of 2 eastern Ohio slayings from 1975

STEUBENVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A 65-year-old Ohio man has been sentenced to 30 years to life in prison after being convicted of two slayings that happened nearly four decades ago.

A jury in Steubenville on Wednesday found Stanley Rusnak guilty of killing his 75-year-old uncle James Kelsie Noble, and his uncle’s 52-year-old caregiver, Sophie Groch Bell. Prosecutors say it happened during a home invasion in the eastern Ohio town of Piney Fork on April 1, 1975.

Rusnak was living in Cleveland when he was arrested last August based on new evidence that came to light in the unsolved case.

Rusnak also was charged with a separate murder that happened in 1977, but the jury acquitted him of that charge Wednesday.