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Two Riverside County men have been found guilty of murdering an
18-year-old girl, putting her body in a 55-gallon drum and leaving
it in a field in Southern California.Two separate Riverside
Superior Court juries on Monday convicted Jeffree Buettner of
Menifee and Glen Jones of Wildomar of the 2002 murder.Prosecutors
say Buettner and Jones beat and strangled Stephanie Benton because
they thought she was talking to law enforcement about other crimes
the men had committed.Her decomposed body was found in a drum in a
Lake Elsinore field with a leather belt around her neck and duct
tape wrapped around her head.The juries also found special
circumstances that make the men eligible for the death penalty.
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