A Solano County Superior Court jury has convicted a man for the 1982 murder of a 14-year-old Vacaville high school student.

The jury on Thursday found 59-year-old Marvin Ray Markle guilty of murdering De Anna Lynn Johnson, a student at Will C. Wood High School whose body was found on railroad tracks not far from her home on Nov. 16, 1982. Prosecutors said Johnson was strangled and badly bludgeoned.

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