Lowe faces up to life in prison without the chance of parole.

Lowe was charged with the first-degree murder of Braxton resident Roy Glen Loyd of Flatwoods.

Officials said that Lowe's girlfriend, Misty Cabral, lured Loyd to a Jefferson motel, where she and Lowe robbed him and then bludgeoned him to death.

Lowe then sealed his body in a garbage can, which was later found along the Kanawha River.

Cabral pleaded guilty to robbery, and a murder charge has been dropped against her.