The Virginian-Pilot
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DATE: Sunday, September 17, 1995             TAG: 9509170121
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B3   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                     LENGTH: Short :   23 lines

BEACH MAN CONVICTED

Eric L. Schroeder, 23, of Virginia Beach, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced Thursday to 50 years in prison.

Schroeder was convicted of killing Jamie J. Stehlin, 20, in May 1994.

Co-defendant Loren Neal Shelby, 22, testified that he and Schroeder beat Stehlin to death with a metal pipe and hid the body.

Stehlin's body, wrapped in a sheet, was found by police in a plywood storage shed outside a cottage in the 500 block of 16th St. Shelby pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to murder and robbery. He has not been sentenced.

KEYWORDS: MURDER ARREST BEATING VERDICT by CNB