TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (Michigan News Source) – After more than three decades of unanswered questions, a Grand Traverse County jury has found Steven Koon guilty of second-degree murder in the 1989 killing of Linda Meteer, bringing a measure of closure to one of northern Michigan’s longest-running cold cases.

Koon, 64, was convicted Monday following a week-long trial in 13th Circuit Court. Prosecutors argued that advances in DNA testing and forensic science helped finally solve the decades-old homicide of Meteer, a 41-year-old mother of five whose badly beaten body was discovered in a wooded area in Hoosier Valley south of Traverse City in April 1989.

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Investigators identified Koon as a suspect after reexamining evidence collected during the original investigation and applying modern forensic techniques unavailable at the time of the killing. The case received renewed attention through the work of local investigators, forensic experts, and assistance from the Western Michigan University Cold Case Program.

Sentencing is expected at a later date. Koon faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life in prison for the murder that remained unsolved for nearly four decades.