A 47-year-old Texas man was convicted of murder and sentenced to 30 years in prison for strangling the mother of his two youngest children in 2023.
Derek Lennon Bradley was found guilty by a jury in Orange County on Tuesday. Jurors then sentenced him to three decades behind bars for the death of 38-year-old Casie Lynn Graves, whose body was discovered near railroad tracks in the city of Orange on September 16, 2023. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death as strangulation.