A Davidson County Criminal Court jury has found Perry March guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of his wife, Janet Levine March, who went missing ten years ago this week from their opulent Forest Hills home and whose body has never been found.
Jurors had several options for verdicts on reduced charges, but they found that the state had proved its murder charge despite the lack of a body and paucity of physical evidence.
At sentencing, now scheduled for September 6, Judge Steve Dozier can hand down prison terms totaling as much as 64 years for March, if the judge opts to make the sentences on March's convictions in three separate criminal trials this year run consecutively rather than concurrently.
A jury convicted March in June on one count of conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and two counts of solicitation to commit first-degree murder in a plot to kill Lawrence and Carolyn Levine, the parents of his missing wife.
In April, another jury found March guilty of the theft of several thousand dollars from Lawrence Levine's law firm, where March worked in the 1990s.
The Law |
Perry Avram March |
Steve R. Dozier |
Lawrence E. Levine |
Carolyn R. Levine |
Janet Gail Levine March (1963-1996) |
Criminal prosecutions: Violent offenses
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