ATLANTA — A jury on Friday returned a not guilty verdict for a man accused of killing and dismembering his wife , Melissa Wolfenbarger, a young Atlanta mother, decades ago.

The jurors got the case just a few hours earlier and came back with their decision late Friday afternoon.

Her case went unsolved and cold for more than 20 years. A break in the case led to the man who was allegedly behind her gruesome death -- her husband.

Christopher Wolfenbarger is facing murder and felony murder charges and is accused in an indictment of "inflicting homicidal violence" sometime between Dec. 10, 1998, and April 29, 1999.

It was 154 days after Melissa's family had last heard from her when police responded to an area less than a mile away from her home. Christopher Wolfenbarger is accused of

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