A Florida man who murdered a woman he met on a dating app and then burned her dismembered remains will spend the rest of his life behind bars .

Daniel Stearns, 32, was convicted of second-degree murder, abuse of a dead human body, and tampering with evidence after his trial concluded in October. The guilty verdict came more than two years after he was charged with killing 44-year-old Nancy Howery, a mother of two children. As Law&Crime previously reported, Howery was reported missing on Feb. 18, 2023, by her ex-husband after she failed to pick up their children from school.

Howery was last seen alive on Feb. 15, 2023, and had told a friend that she planned to meet with Stearns that day in Palm Bay.

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