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Vaden Sentenced in Huron River Death
Dy'mond Vaden was sentenced March 11 to a minimum of 19.7 years and a maximum of 25.2 years after pleading guilty in the death of George Cox Jr. His body was found in the Huron River in May 2025.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
A guilty plea is a conviction, and the range Judge Bell imposed in March is the judgment. George Cox Jr. is dead. The murder charges filed first are not the charges she was sentenced on.
Dy'mond Vaden was sentenced on March 11 to a minimum of 19.7 years and a maximum of 25.2 years in prison. She pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter, felonious assault, and offenses against a human corpse in the death of George Cox Jr. Judge Richard Bell imposed the range in her plea agreement. She had been charged with murder.
In court she admitted stabbing Cox in the abdomen on Oct. 18, 2024, and not calling the police. She told the judge she regretted that. Cox, 32, was reported missing on Nov. 8, 2024. On May 15, 2025, kayakers found his body in the Huron River in Erie County. He was bound with rope and wrapped in a sheet.
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