Berkeley County Jury Finds Lineburg Guilty of First Degree Murder in Baseball Bat Beating Death of Wife; Attaches No Mercy to Life Sentence
MARTINSBURG, W. Va. — A Berkeley County jury deliberated an hour and a half Thursday before finding a Martinsburg man guilty of first degree murder in the 2022 death of his wife. Samuel Lee Lineberg, 57, had confessed to police that he killed his wife with a baseball bat in November 2022 soon after learning…