A Missouri man has been convicted of killing a woman he was accused of stalking and faces life in prison when he's sentenced in October.
On Tuesday, a Johnson County jury found Clyde James Barnes Jr., 44, of Kansas City, guilty of first-degree murder and other counts in the 2020 killing of Jessica Smith, 42, in her Olathe home. Barnes was also found guilty of aggravated burglary, unlawful tampering with electronic monitoring, criminal threat and violation of a protection order.
Olathe police who were responding to a burglary call at Smith's home on July 5, 2020, found her body inside and arrested Barnes hours later. At the time, authorities said Barnes was out on bond for a stalking charge involving Smith, but the charge was later dismissed.
