A Belmont County jury convicted Andrew Griffin in the 2021 killings of Thomas and Angela Strussion.

Two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated arson are the counts the attorney general printed. Trespassing is on WTOV and inside the Times Leader's five-count line. It is not on the attorney general's release. Dec. 1, and a later date, are not the same sentencing schedule. A verdict is not the sentence.

The Ohio Attorney General's office, in a release dated 11/4/2026 from St. Clairsville, said an Oklahoma man was found guilty today of aggravated murder in the 2021 killings of a Belmont County couple. Attorney General Andy Wilson and Belmont County Prosecutor Kevin Flanagan announced it. Wilson said, "Today's verdicts hold a cold-blooded killer accountable," and thanked investigators, prosecutors, jurors, and Chris Kinsler of the office's Special Prosecutions Section. The release said Andrew Griffin, 34, of Whitesboro, Oklahoma, was convicted of two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated arson after a seven-day jury trial in Belmont County Common Pleas Court. It said prosecutors alleged he fatally shot Thomas and Angela Strussion in their Belmont home on Sept. 21, 2021, before setting the house on fire. It said Griffin and Thomas Strussion had been business partners in the restaurant industry before Griffin was forced out of the partnership. It said sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 1 in Belmont County Common Pleas Court. It said the Belmont County Sheriff's Office investigated with help from the FBI and the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, and that the Belmont County Prosecutor's Office prosecuted the case with the attorney general's Special Prosecutions Section. Today, on a release dated Nov. 4, 2026, is a Wednesday. WTOV, by Olivia Zinn, is dated Wed, November 4, 2026, at 2:58 p.m., and updated Wed, November 4, 2026, at 5:06 p.m. The body says Andrew Griffin was found guilty on all counts, including aggravated murder, trespassing, and aggravated arson, on Thursday, in the 2021 murders of Thomas and Angela Strussion. Thursday, in that body, and Wednesday, on the byline and on the attorney general's "today," are not the same day. The lede prints "Thomas an Angela," with no d. All counts, including trespassing, is not the attorney general's list of two aggravated-murder counts and one aggravated-arson count. WTOV did not print two, did not print a number of counts, and did not print a firearms specification. It reported the jury deliberated for about four hours and alerted the court to a unanimous decision just after 2 p.m. Four hours, unanimous, and just after 2 p.m. are not on the attorney general's release. Verdicts, plural, in Wilson's sentence, and a unanimous decision, on WTOV, are not the same word. WTOV reported Griffin will be sentenced December 1st. December 1st, and Dec. 1, are the same date written two ways.

WTOV printed a statement from Belmont County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Joe Vavra after the verdict. The first sentence on the page has no opening quotation mark. It says the families are very relieved to have this chapter end. A following sentence, set off as a quotation, says they had been dealing with this for five years, in a much more personal and emotional manner than the prosecutors had, and that he thinks they "jus feel a sense of relief" and are happy the guilty party will be paying the consequences for his actions. Jus is the spelling on the page. The attorney general's release does not print Vavra or that quotation. The Times Leader, dated November 4, 2026, with no clock and a note that the story is a 2 min read, reported a Belmont County jury found Andrew Isaac Griffin guilty of the murders of Thomas and Angela Strussion on Wednesday in Belmont County Common Pleas Court. Wednesday, on the Times Leader, matches the attorney general's date and conflicts with WTOV's Thursday. Andrew Isaac Griffin is the Times Leader's full name. The attorney general and WTOV print Andrew Griffin. The Times Leader reported he was found guilty on all five counts, which it listed as two counts of murder with a firearms specification, two counts of murder with trespassing and a firearms specification, and one count of arson. Five counts, on that page, and two counts of aggravated murder plus one count of aggravated arson, on the attorney general's release, are not the same list. Murder, and aggravated murder, are not the same count name. Arson, and aggravated arson, are not the same count name. A firearms specification is on the Times Leader's list and is not on the other two pages. Trespassing is inside the Times Leader's murder counts and is a separate word on WTOV's list. The Times Leader reported he will be sentenced at a later date. A later date is not Dec. 1. It reported the death penalty is not on the table and was removed as an option at the start of the trial to ensure no delays. The attorney general's release and WTOV do not print the death penalty.

The account of the killings is not one sentence across the three pages. The attorney general's release says prosecutors alleged he fatally shot both of them in their Belmont home on Sept. 21, 2021, and then set the house on fire. The Times Leader said he stood accused of shooting Thomas Strussion, a former business partner in the Salsa Joe's Cafe in the Elm Grove neighborhood of Wheeling, and his wife, Angela Strussion, and of then setting fire to multiple parts of the Strussions' home. Their Belmont home, and multiple parts of the home, are not the same fire line. The restaurant industry, on the attorney general's release, and Salsa Joe's Cafe in Elm Grove, on the Times Leader, are not the same business line. Forced out of the partnership is the attorney general's sentence. The Times Leader does not print it. The Times Leader reported the prosecution used cellphone data to place Griffin in Belmont County on the night of the murders, and testimony from several witnesses who said he admitted to killing two people. It reported former best friend Brett Cole said he helped Griffin plan Thomas Strussion's murder. It reported defense attorney Samuel Shamansky attacked the witnesses' credibility and painted Strussion as a man who hung out with "unsavory" people. Cellphone data, Brett Cole, Samuel Shamansky, and unsavory are not on the attorney general's release or on WTOV's verdict story. Seven days, age 34, Whitesboro, Oklahoma, Sept. 21, 2021, the sheriff's office, the FBI, the Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation, Kevin Flanagan, and Chris Kinsler are the attorney general's release. They are not on the Times Leader's verdict story. A guilty verdict is the finding those pages report. Dec. 1, and a later date, are the sentencing lines. Neither is a term of years. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.