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REDDING, Calif. (AP) -- A Shasta County man has been convicted of beating and strangling a woman 22 years ago.
Forty-year-old Brian Harper faces 25 years to life when he's sentenced Sept. 10.
Jurors found Harper guilty Tuesday of murdering 43-year-old Judith Hasselstrom in August 1988 but could not agree on rape allegations.
Hasselstrom's body was found in shrubbery in Redding's Caldwell Park. The case went unsolved for decades, until authorities matched Harper's DNA to blood found on bamboo stalks used to cover the body.
Defense attorneys argued during the trial that a witness said Harper was not the man seen near the crime scene that day.
Prosecutors are expected to announced next month whether they plan to retry him on the sexual assault charges, which would put him in prison for life if convicted.
The Associated Press
