STROUDSBURG -- A jury found Charles Hicks guilty on all counts in the murder and dismemberment of a woman in the Poconos.
Prosecutors said Hicks of Tobyhanna killed Deanna Null in 2008 and dismembered her body, scattering the parts on two interstate highways.
Charles Hicks was silent as he walked out from the courtroom inside the Monroe County Courthouse after a jury found him guilty on all counts Friday in the murder and dismemberment trial in the Poconos.
It was nearly seven years ago he murdered and dismembered a Scranton woman. The body parts of Deanna Null were found scattered along highways in trash bags.
Closing arguments were heard Friday morning and lasted for nearly three hours.
The defense argued that all three experts that gave conflicting testimony in this trial on how exactly Deanna Null may have died, and if injuries found all over her body happened before or after she died.
Defense attorney Jason Labar argued, "some of you might be sitting here and thinking maybe Deanna Null was murdered by Charles, maybe he had premeditated intent. Maybe is the exact defining of reasonable doubt."
The defense concedes that Hicks cut up Deanna Nulls body and then scattered her body parts along the highway.
First Assistant District Attorney Michael Mancuso led the prosecution's case, and spent more than an hour rehashing evidence and testimony presented to jurors over the course of the seven-day trial.
A pastor who has been Hicks' spiritual support while he was behind bars for the past six years said listening to the arguments was difficult.
"It's not pleasant to hear anything like that. You don't want to believe that, but whatever the facts are, are the facts," said Pastor Leanon Trewick, Full Gospel Holiness Church.
The prosecution asked for only one verdict from the jury after days of looking over gruesome evidence
"There's only one conclusion: it's unpleasant, first degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and tampering with evidence. That's the only way justice can be done."
Hicks faces possible life in prison or the death penalty. The penalty phase begins Monday.