MEDFORD, New York (WABC) -- A Suffolk County jury has convicted Dante Taylor of first and second degree murder and attempted rape in the killing of Sarah Goode. The 21-year-old single mom from Medford went missing after a party in June 2014.
The jury reached its verdict on the second day of deliberations. The trial began on May 11.
Goode was a medical technician and a mother of a young daughter. She went missing after attending a party on June 7, 2014.
A volunteer search party found her body 5 days later in the woods off Camden Court in Medford.
Goode had been stabbed 42 times.
Taylor was arrested in Vero Beach, Florida a month later on an unrelated warrant.
Taylor faces life in prison without parole. Sentencing is scheduled for July 29.
Dante Taylor found guilty of killing Sarah Goode
WABC
By Eyewitness News
