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July 11, 2013

Killer of Pitt prof convicted

The killer of Pitt linguistics professor Robert T. Henderson has been convicted of homicide in an Oahu, Hawaii court. Jason Lee McCormick, who faces life in prison with the possibility of parole, will be sentenced Sept. 11.

The murder took place in 1996 when Henderson, 51, was visiting Hawaii for a conference. At the time he was director of the Language Acquisition Institute, director of the professional translation certificate program and chair of the language resource center planning committee at Pitt. The Robert Henderson Language Media Center was renamed in his honor in 2001.

McCormick had been arrested in May 2010 and was convicted after a non-jury trial in the courtroom of Judge Richard Perkins. Published reports say McCormick first confessed during treatment at a psychiatric facility in 2008 and then volunteered his story to police in 2010.


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