By The Times-Union
A Jacksonville man faces 25 years to life in prison after a jury convicted him Thursday of murdering his girlfriend, then keeping her child in his house with the decaying body for days.
Calvin R. Simpson, 52, was found guilty of second-degree murder in the 2008 killing of Tyronnie Lynne Dennis, 31, in Simpson's Blackshire Road home.
Circuit Judge Elizabeth Senterfitt scheduled sentencing the week of June 21.
Assistant State Attorney London Kite said Simpson killed Dennis in front of her 3-year-old child then stayed with the child in the house as the body decayed. Police were responding to a missing persons report when they smelled the body and found Dennis inside the house near Highlands Middle School on the Northside.
Simpson has a history of worthless check convictions and served prison time in the 1980s for aggravated assault.
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