The 45-year-old pleaded not guilty, and no forensic evidence linked him to the murder weapons; but it took the jury only about two hours to return with a conviction.
Gibson was found dead early in the morning of February 16, 2020, in the family's living room, according to, and police believe McBride became enraged during an argument with her about his children. They accused him of fatally beating the 79-year-old at least 19 times with a ceramic piggy bank and a metal child gate.
Although DNA evidence couldn't link McBride to the murder weapons, Sarah Teeple, a latent print examiner for the Michigan State Police, testified that a bloody handprint found on the edge of the bathtub matched McBride's print, according toLaw enforcement also found a pair of jeans covered in blood that matched Gibson and McBride's DNA.
The handprint in the bathtub, he said, was there because he got sick in the bathroom and put his hand on the bathtub so he could turn the faucet on and rinse his mouth,"I think I started going into shock or something," McBride testified."Things weren't making sense to me."
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