CENTRAL ISLIP, NY (AP) -- A Queens man has been convicted of shooting and dismembering two men and burying their body parts in his Long Island parents' backyard over a drug deal gone bad.
A jury in Central Islip on Friday found 29-year-old Darren Lynch guilty of murder and kidnapping in the deaths of 22-year-old Jairo Santos and 35-year-old Joseph Odierno.
Lynch had testified earlier that he killed the two because he was angry they had sold him $30,000 worth of fake cocaine.
The victims were last seen in July last year at Long Island University's C.W. Post Campus in Old Brookville, where Santos was a student.
A co-defendant, 30-year-old James Wall, of Coram, was also found guilty of murder and kidnapping.
Lynch faces life without parole and Wall faces 25 years to life at a Dec. 11 sentencing.
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