An Indiana jury convicted Charles Calvert of murdering attorney Marcia Linsky.

A murder conviction is a finding of guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. It is not the sentence. WANE 15 and WPTA reported jurors returned a guilty verdict in less than an hour after Calvert testified that Linsky stumbled into a knife, while prosecutors argued a staged scene and a knowing, intentional killing in her Grabill kitchen.

On Thursday, Oct. 1, 2026, an Allen County jury found Charles Calvert guilty of murdering Marcia Linsky, a former Allen County magistrate who later practiced criminal defense in Fort Wayne, WANE 15 and WPTA reported. Coverage said the panel deliberated less than 50 minutes after a four-day trial. A guilty verdict decides guilt. It does not decide the prison term.

Trial coverage said Calvert was the only defense witness. He testified that Linsky was drunk, stumbled toward him with a knife while he was having a medical episode, and that additional wounds happened as he tried to get up with the knife still in his hand. On cross-examination, WANE reported, he told the prosecutor he "didn't kill her. The knife did." Prosecutors argued Linsky suffered a brutal kitchen attack, that Calvert cleaned up and delayed calling 911, and that his account shifted from earlier claims that she attacked him.

WPTA reported police responded after Calvert called 911 and said his girlfriend had come at him with a knife and was no longer with us. Investigators said the scene appeared staged and that Calvert sounded calm on the call. Sentencing is scheduled for Oct. 28, 2026, at 10:30 a.m., with a murder conviction carrying up to 65 years in Indiana, according to WANE. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.