Jedidiah Lang, 31, Mount Vernon was convicted of murder Friday morning and sentenced to a prison term of fifteen years to life. Lang admitted to Knox County Common Pleas Court Judge Otho Eyster that he caused the death of Bradley Grosscup, 52, on February 12.
Lang said that he and his co-defendant Amber Pilotti had been drinking with Grosscup all day in Grosscup’s Shirley Avenue apartment, when Grosscup and Pilotti got into an argument. Lang then got into a fight with Grosscup and he put Grosscup in a sleeper hold while the were fighting. An autopsy report confirmed that Grosscup wan asphyxiated, according to Prosecutor John Thatcher.
Jedidiah Lang – Knox County Jail photo
The State dismissed other charges against Lang as part of a negotiated plea, incuding felonious assault, tampering with evidence, gross abuse of a corpse, and aggravated arson. Thatcher said Lang’s guilty plea to murder, the most serious offense in the indictment, and his sentence to a mandatory prison tetm of fifteen years to life was satisfactory to the State and to the victim’s family.
Pilotti was convicted October 25 of complicity to commit felonious assault, tampering with evidence, gross abuse of a corpse and aggravated arson for the part she played in the fight leading to Grosscup’s death and for setting the fire in Grosscup’s apartment to cover up the crime on February 14.
Detective Corporal Matt Dailey, Mount Vernon Police Department and State Fire Marshall’s Office Investigator Jason Whaley investigated the case.
