Casto convicted in 2014 murder of Cindy Ball

PARKERSBURG – A jury on Monday convicted a 57-year-old Wood County man in the 2014 murder of Cindy Ball. Greg Casto, 57, now faces life in prison without the possibility of parole after the 12-man jury recommended against mercy on Monday afternoon. Ball’s body was found on Oct. 24, 2014, in a wooded area near Sugar Camp Road in Wirt County, two days after the 36-year-old Vienna resident was last seen alive leaving the Overtime Sports Bar in Parkersburg. She had been shot in the head and was found partially undressed. Her killing remained unsolved for more than a decade until Casto – who had been involved in what authorities described as a tumultuous, on-again, off-again relationship with Ball – was indicted by a Wood County Grand Jury and arrested in October 2025. Casto is scheduled to be sentenced in a 9 a.m. hearing on Jan. 15, though Wood County Prosecutor Pat Lefebure said there is little Wood County Circuit Judge J.D. Beane will have to decide beyond whether Casto’s sentence of on