Written by Felicia Jordan for WCPO Jacob Bumpass has been sentenced to four years in prison for charges connected to the disappearance and death of 17-year-old Paige Johnson of Northern Kentucky. The sentence is the maximum possible for the charges on which Bumpass was convicted. Bumpass was found guilty of tampering with evidence and abuse […]
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Jury finds man guilty of multiple charges in connection to death of NKY teen
After deliberation that spanned over two days, the jury in the Jacob Bumpass trial found him guilty of tampering with evidence and abuse of a corpse in connection to the death of 17-year-old Paige Johnson of Northern Kentucky. The trial took place 13 years after Johnson disappeared; a hiker found her remains in 2020 off of State […]
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Trial set to begin three years after indictment in Paige Johnson cold case
Written by WCPO’s Sean DeLancey Thirteen years after the disappearance of Paige Johnson, Jacob Bumpass will stand trial for abuse of a corpse and tampering with evidence. A hiker found Johnson’s remains in 2020 along State Route 276 in Clermont County 10 years after she went missing following a party in Covington. Brittany Haywood, Johnson’s […]