A jury found Robert Weiss guilty on all charges once again in the death of Barbara Bruzda.
After two days of testimony, the jury returned the guilty verdict against the 78-year-old Weiss at 7:00 Thursday night. He was originally found guilty in 1997 for killing Bruzda in October of 1978 after playing pool with her at her father’s tavern in Tunnelton. Her body was found buried beneath a pile of leaves in February of 1979.
In 2018, a federal judge overturned the verdict over prosecutorial misconduct by the state attorney general’s prosecutor and a state trooper who testified at the trial. The State Supreme Court subsequently ruled that Weiss could be retried because the crime and the prosecutorial misconduct were separate matters.
Sentencing is scheduled for October 30th.
