Topeka ? A Shawnee County jury took a little more than four hours Monday before convicting a woman of first-degree murder and kidnapping in the death this summer of homeless advocate David Owen.

Kimberly Sharp, 27, sobbed at District Judge Thomas Conklin read the verdicts. Sentencing is scheduled for Feb. 2.

Sharp’s defense attorney, Wendell Betts, said he would appeal the verdicts.

On July 2, investigators found David Owen’s badly decomposed body in tall grass along the north bank of the Kansas River. Authorities during the trial said they believed he died around June 15.

Prosecutors charged four people, including Sharp, with first-degree murder.

John Ray Cornell, 35, pleaded guilty on Oct. 6 to a lesser charge of reckless involuntary manslaughter and a charge of kidnapping. He will be sentenced Feb. 9.

Carl Baker, 60, will go to trial on Jan. 8; Charles L. Hollings-worth III, 18, will go to trial on Jan. 22.