Jury Finds Maryland Man Guilty Of Killing Lower Moreland Woman In November 2019

LOWER MORELAND, PA — A Montgomery County jury didn't buy a story by William Tomas Torres that he meant to commit suicide, and that he accidentally killed his then-girlfriend, Jeanne Edwards, in November 2019, when he fired two shots from a pump-action shotgun into her torso inside of her home.

Torres, who was on trial this week charged with first-degree murder in the 57-year-old Lower Moreland woman's death, was found guilty by a jury on Wednesday, according to local news reports.

The Pottstown Mercury reports that the jury deliberated for 90 minutes before finding Torres, of Elkton, Md., guilty of killing Edwards, with whom he had been romantically involved.

Torres was sentenced to life imprisonment, which the mandatory punishment for first-degree murder in Pennsylvania.

The full Pottstown Mercury report can be found here.

Previous Patch coverage of the case can be found here.