Decade-Long Mystery Solved as Gwinnett County Man Sentenced to Life for Murder of Missing Samuel Waters

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On Tuesday, in a Gwinnett County courtroom, Jeffrey Emerson Moulder, 30, was sentenced to life in prison for the malice murder of 21-year-old Samuel Waters, who went missing in January 2015. A jury found Moulder guilty after deliberating for less than two hours, with evidence revealing that he had lured Waters to a remote location, strangled him, and dismembered his body, which was never recovered. The case remained unresolved for nearly a decade until Moulder's confession to his second wife in 2021 led to police involvement and subsequent trial proceedings.