A jury found Richard Wilbern guilty of murder and robbery Friday morning.
At 10 a.m. on August 12, 2003, Wilbern entered the Xerox Federal Credit Union in Webster dressed as an FBI agent, with a badge and bulletproof vest, and declared he was conducting an audit. After some resistance by an employee, Wilbern pulled two firearms from a briefcase.
During the course of the robbery, he shot two people, killing one. Raymond Batzel, a Xerox machinist for 22 years, was making a car payment. Batzel was 51. Joseph Doud was shot but recovered from his injuries.
Wilbern made off with $10,000 in cash.
The case went cold until Wilbern was finally arrested in September 2016. DNA collected from an envelope connected Wilbern to an umbrella which had been left at the scene of the crime.
Wilbern will be sentenced on February 11, 2020.