Jury finds Manchester man guilty in 1979 murder of Michelle Martinko

The jury has reached a verdict in the first-degree murder trial in the 1979 killing of a Cedar Rapids teen. Sixty-six-year-old Jerry Burns of Manchester was found guilty of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 18-year-old Michelle Martinko in the parking lot of Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids. The verdict came about three hours […]