By Associated Press - Thursday, November 1, 2018

FORT PIERRE, S.D. (AP) - A jury has convicted a South Dakota man of killing his former girlfriend.

A Stanley County jury on Thursday found 48-year-old Chance Harruff of Dallas, South Dakota, guilty of second-degree murder in the 2017 death of 38-year-old Kristi Olson. A second-degree murder conviction carries a mandatory life sentence.

Olson was found strangled in her Dallas home on June 1, 2017. She was the mother of seven children.

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Authorities say she had an on-and-off relationship with Harruff.

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