A Twentynine Palms woman has been convicted of first-degree murder in the 2002 slaying and dismemberment of a man whose charred remains were later found in barrels at a waste disposal site in eastern Pennsylvania. Jurors in Pennsylvania convicted 48-year-old Stacy Britton of Twentynine Palms of first-degree murder on Monday in the death of Robert Roudebush. Her former husband, 35-year-old James Britton Jr., also of Twentynine Palms, pleaded guilty last month to third-degree murder and was sentenced to 15 to 30 years. Investigators say the couple stabbed and beat Roudebush in Wilkes-Barre in July 2002 over a drug dispute, then put the body in their basement. Days later, they dismembered and burned the body. The remains were identified a year later. The couple then moved to Twentynine Palms. Court records said Stacy Britton went to the police and confessed to the crime after getting into a fight with her former husband. She said she and James Britton dismembered the body using scissors, garden shears and an axe.
