A jury convicted Mitchell on every count in the Binghamton killings.

A guilty verdict ends the guilt phase on those counts. It is not the sentence. On Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2026, after afternoon deliberation following a five-day trial in Binghamton, a jury found Scott Mitchell, 51, of Binghamton, guilty on all counts in the Feb. 3, 2025 killings of Daniel McCloe, 58, and Marshall VanOven, 55, in a home on Westwood Court. He faces life in prison, with sentencing scheduled for Dec. 17, 2026, at 9 a.m., and that date is what comes next, not a judgment entered today.

WBNG reported the guilty counts as two counts of murder in the first degree, two counts of murder in the second degree, two counts of strangulation in the second degree, criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, two counts of concealment of a human body, and two counts of tampering with physical evidence. The same report said the trial evidence was that Mitchell strangled both men with a rope and then struck them in the back of the head with a wrench in the basement, that a pathologist testified the injuries were consistent with those statements, and that the bodies were stripped and placed in trash cans in his garage. He fled to Florida and was found and arrested by the Volusia County Sheriff's Office on Feb. 12. That is the guilt-phase record the jury weighed. It is not the sentence.

Sentencing is scheduled for Dec. 17, 2026, at 9 a.m. Life in prison is the exposure on the murder counts. Exposure is not a judgment entered on Tuesday. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.