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The 60-year-old was found wholly burned after a fire engulfed his farmhouse. But within days, the authorities uncovered a sinister plot to cash in on multiple insurance policies in David’s name. They were led to Joe and Iryn Meyers, people who knew David very well.
Aiming to cash in on the hefty life, renter’s and homeowner’s insurance policies they’d taken out in the previous two months, Joe Meyers and his wife, Iryn, conspired to burn 60-year-old David O’Dell’s house to ground while he was trapped inside.
Moments earlier in the third-floor courtroom of soon-to-be retired Judge Joseph W. Latham, Iryn Meyers was sentenced to spend 23 years to life in prison for the second-degree murder of Phil O’Dell’s brother, David N. O’Dell. The maximum sentence she faced was 25 years to life.
Joseph and Iryn Meyers were charged with arson and murder in the death of David O'Dell, who lived at the home which burned down.
Prosecutors contended that Joseph and Iryn Meyers intentionally murdered O'Dell and set his home ablaze in an attempt to collect more than $140,000 in insurance money.
Authorities she and her husband, 45-year-old Joseph Meyers, killed David O'Dell by setting fire to his Wayland home in February 2016. Prosecutors say the couple killed O'Dell to collect more than $140,000 in insurance money.
BATH — A Steuben County Court jury took just three hours Tuesday to convict 38-year-old Iryn B. Meyers of second-degree murder and two counts of first-degree arson for the murder of David O’Dell in Wayland last year.
