WINNESHIEK COUNTY, Iowa — A Georgia man was found guilty of the murder of a teen in Winneshiek County who’s been missing for over eight years.

In 2017, 15-year-old Jade Marie Colvin arrived at the rural Winneshiek County farm of 65-year-old James David Bachmurski, Sr. Colvin had come from Arizona and was staying with Bachmurski, who the Iowa Attorney General’s Office says was in a relationship with Colvin’s mother, for a short time.

According to court records, Colvin and Bachmurski had been communicating online for at least a month, unbeknownst to her mother, before she arrived at the farm.

Not long after Colvin’s arrival she was reported missing. The AG’s Office said she was last seen in a Decorah Walmart on March 29, 2017, with Bachmurski, and had stopped responding to texts or communicating in other ways the following day.

Several years later in May 2022 the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office received information from the US Marshal Service and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that claimed Jade had not been seen or heard from after she arrived at the farm. As of 2025, Colvin’s body has never been found.

A years-long investigation was launched and resulted in the arrest of Bachmurski in Georgia last year. Bachmurski was charged with second-degree murder in connection to Colvin’s disappearance.

After six days of testimony a jury found Bachmurski guilty of second-degree murder on Tuesday for Colvin’s death.

“After a lot of hard work and great investigation by the Winneshiek County Sheriff’s Office and Iowa’s Department of Criminal Investigation, a cold-blooded murderer is off the streets and a family finally has closure,” Attorney General Brenna Bird said in a statement. “I want to thank Winneshiek County Attorney Andrew Van Der Maaten for his work, and I’m incredibly proud of my team, including several Assistant Attorneys General and the Statewide Prosecutors of the Criminal Justice Division of the Attorney General’s Office, for their work to secure this murder conviction.”

A sentencing hearing has not yet been scheduled.