A Hanover County jury this afternoon found John Bradley Crawford guilty of first-degree murder and abduction with intent to defile.
The jury returned its verdict after six hours of deliberations over two days.
Now, the jury is deliberating his sentence. Crawford, 47, faces 20 years to life on each charge in the death of 6-year-old Alexander Paul Glanz in 1980.
When the verdict was read, the boy's mother, Diane Glanz, gave a thumb's up to her supporters. Crawford started crying.
Crawford, 47 was charged with murder and abduction in September 2006.
Alexander was abducted Dec. 3, 1980, and left to die in a patch of weeds and cut-over woods along Cold Harbor Road.
Glanz's pale, outstretched body was found 20 feet from the highway three days after he disappeared.
In closing arguments yesterday, Hanover Commonwealth's Attorney R.E. "Trip" Chalkley III depicted a tale of a child predator who singled out unattended children.
And he said the murder mimics a crime Crawford admitted to in 1981, when he abducted two Hanover girls, tied their hands and feet and left them overnight in a wooded section of the county.
That case generated a 50-year prison sentence that was scheduled to end just days before Crawford's indictment in Glanz's death.
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