PARKERSBURG — A man charged for helping to get rid of evidence in the murder of a Parkersburg woman in the Fall of 2019 has entered into a plea agreement.

Eric Dillon, 30, in custody at the Huttonsville Correctional Center, recently pleaded guilty before Wood County Circuit Judge Jason Wharton to a charge of being an accessory after the fact in the case of the murder of Karen Yeager. He was charged with helping to hide or dispose of evidence in Yeager’s murder.

Under the agreement, he will serve one year on state prison with 302 days credited for time served. According to the West Virginia Division of Corrections website, Dillon is already serving one to 15 years for charges of burglary by breaking and entering as well as grand larceny.

Wood County Prosecutor Pat Lefebure said those other charges are related to an incident in Mercer County.

The Wood County charges will run concurrently with what he is already serving.

Officials have said another suspect, Tyler Jenkins of Parkersburg, was charged with being an accessory after the fact.

Jenkins, 24, recently entered a plea agreement in Wood County Magistrate Court where he pleaded guilty to transferring stolen property. He was sentenced to one year in jail which was suspended and he was placed on one year of unsupervised probation. The felony case in Wood County Circuit Court was dismissed.

Yeager, 68, was reported missing on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019, after not having contact with her family for 24 hours. Parkersburg police officers were dispatched to her residence at 3805 Broad St.

According to the criminal complaint, blood was observed on the door frame of the basement door and near the washing machine going into the kitchen, and Yeager’s 2018 Mitsubishi Outlander was missing.

The car was taken by a juvenile found by the police the next day, police reported. A passenger was also taken into custody and was able to show officers where Yeager’s body was under the Fifth Street Bridge.

Last month, Dominick McClung, 18, in custody at the Donald R. Kuhn Juvenile Center in Boone County, pleaded guilty before Wharton to the first-degree murder of Yeager, saying he was the one who killed her.

He talked about how he and co-defendant Michael Leadmon were robbing Yeager’s home and confronted her. Out of fear, Leadmon grabbed her and McClung stabbed her, McClung said during his plea hearing.

McClung said they took items, including the car, a shotgun, a pistol, a computer, jewelry and more. Many of those items ended up in the hands of other people in the community, including Dillon.

McClung said some of those items ended up in the possession of Jenkins. He claimed not to know who Dillon was and was not sure if Leadmon had distributed items out to others in the area. He said they explained to Jenkins how they got the firearms.

McClung was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for the murder and one to five years for concealment of a deceased human body, with both sentences to run consecutively.

In December 2019, Leadmon, 23, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder.

Contact Brett Dunlap at bdunlap@newsandsentinel.com