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<p>STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) &#8212; A woman has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 2002 slaying and dismemberment of a man whose charred remains were later found in barrels at a waste disposal site in eastern Pennsylvania.</p><p>Jurors in Monroe County convicted 48-year-old Stacy Britton of Twentynine Palms, California, of first-degree murder on Monday in the death of Robert Roudebush.</p><p>Her former husband, 35-year-old James Britton Jr., pleaded guilty last month to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years.</p><p>Authorities said they stabbed and beat Roudebush in Wilkes-Barre in July 2002 over a drug dispute, then dismembered and burned the body in Monroe County. The remains were found a year later.</p><p>Defense attorney Brandon Reish argued that her statements to police were only telling them what they wanted to hear.</p><style>
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Woman convicted of 2002 murder, dismemberment in Wilkes-Barre