JEFF REINITZ

DECORAH — James David Bachmurski told investigators it would be bad for him if he told them what he knew about the disappearance of Jade Colvin.

Assistant Attorney General Scott Brown seized on that comment Tuesday as he pressed jurors to find the 66-year-old former Decorah farmer and beekeeper guilty of second-degree murder.

"It looks very bad for a reason, and that’s because he’s responsible for her death," Brown told the jury.

Evidence in the Bachmurski’s trial wrapped up Tuesday, and jurors began deliberating shortly after 1 p.m.

Jade was 15 when her mother brought her to Bachmurski’s farm on Sky View south of Decorah in late March 2017 to keep her off the radar of the Iowa Department of Health and Human Services while the mother battled the agency.

Within a week, Ja

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