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OGDEN -- A jury has acquitted a man charged in the 1984 murder of a Brigham City gas station clerk.
Police arrested Wade Maughan, 54, in 2005 after DNA evidence linked him and Glen Griffin to the murder of 22-year-old Bradley Perry. Perry was working the graveyard shift at a Box Elder County convenience store and gas station. He was found bound and stabbed after what police say was a robbery.
Maughan told investigators Griffin threatened him if he didn't help tie up Perry.
Griffin was found guilty in 2008 and sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Prosecutors say Maughan confessed to the crime many times, both in written statements and in conversations with friends and police. But the defense argued Maughan was tricked into confessing by detectives who "fed him facts" about the murder.
The Deseret News reports the jury deliberated nearly six hours before returning the not guilty verdict.
