A Massachusetts man has been found guilty of first-degree murder nearly four years after his girlfriend was found dead in a marsh in Saugus .

The Essex County District Attorney's Office said 48-year-old Bruce Maiben of Lynn would be sentenced Wednesday after a jury convicted him Monday.

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The boyfriend of Sherell Pringle, a Woburn woman found dead in Saugus last month, has been charged with her murder.

Sherell Pringle, a 40-year-old Woburn woman, was reported missing after she did not return home from a date with Maiben on Dec. 18, 2021. Family and friends found her body two days later in the Rumney Marsh Reservation off of Route 107 in Saugus.

Maiben was arrested on charges of larceny over $1,200, tampering wit

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