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Man Guilty Of 2nd-Degree Murder In Girlfriend's Death

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Published: October 3, 2008

A jury found Robert Pollock guilty today of second-degree murder in the death of his girlfriend.

He will be sentenced Nov. 7

Last year, Tampa police excavated Nicki Hendriex's remains from a 6-foot hole behind a house at 8217 N. 18th St. that she once shared with Pollock. Detectives say he buried her with bath towels after shooting her in the head during an argument.

Pollock's arrest stunned his former wife, Melonie Bessette, who divorced him in 2005 after roughly five years of marriage. Pollock used to own a landscaping business called Florida Lawn Enforcement, but he liquidated all his assets in recent years to pay for a drug habit, Bessette said.

"He was a happy-go-lucky, generous, loving guy. He was a good husband. I can't see him capable of taking another life," she said last year. "This is not the person I knew. … I thought he was as low as he could go."

Dorsie Clayton France, the second of two suspects in Hendriex's slaying, died of natural causes in his bed at Falkenburg Road Jail last year.

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