39 year old Ryan Houser of Rockford has pleaded no contest to murder and has been found guilty in Van Wert County Common Pleas Court. Houser faced charges in the 2023 shooting death of Barbara Ganger of Van Wert. According to the Van Wert Independent, In exchange for this plea, other charges againt Houser, including aggravated murder, weapons possession and tampering with evidence, were dropped. Houser faces a mandatory 15 years to life in prison when he is sentenced at 10 am on Monday May 7th. There is an unrelated case against Houser in Mercer County involving having a weapon under disability and a probation violation.