(Radio Iowa) – A Madison County jury has found a 27-year-old man guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend as his two young children slept in the next room. Twenty-three-year-old Rosanna Otto was found shot to death in her Winterset home in May of 2019. Jerome Moyer the third of Norwalk — who goes by the name Jerry — was arrested the next day during a traffic stop in Dubuque County.

Moyer had pleaded guilty to misdemeanor domestic abuse in 2014 for an attack on Otto. The next year, he broke into another ex-girlfriend’s home and threatened her with a knife. Moyer was sentenced to 15 years in prison for that attack, but the sentence was suspended in 2015.

Moyer was found guilty of first degree murder, which carries a mandatory sentence of life in prison.