California Man Convicted for Burying Man Alive Granted Parole

California Man Convicted for Burying Man Alive Granted Parole
Crime scene tape in California on March 11, 2021. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
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A 58-year-old Central Valley man, who was convicted for torturing and burying a man alive in the town of Clovis, California, in 1980, was granted parole after serving almost 41 years in state prison.

In November 1980, David Weidert, who was 17 years old, tortured, stabbed, and beat 20-year-old Mike Morganti for nearly an hour before forcing him to dig his own grave he would be buried alive in.