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'Justice Delayed, Not Denied': Man Convicted For Bucks Mom's 1991 Murder 'Justice Delayed, Not Denied': Man Convicted For Bucks Mom's 1991 Murder
'Justice Delayed, Not Denied': Man Convicted For Bucks Mom's 1991 Murder More than 30 years after she was found dead in her smoldering Bristol home, Robert Atkins was convicted for the murder of Joy Hibbs.   Common Pleas Judge Wallace H. Bateman Jr. handed down a guilty verdict on Thursday, Feb. 1 following three days of testimony, said the Bucks District Attorney's Office.  Hibbs, a 35-year-old mother of two, was found dead in her son's bedroom after a fire at her Spencer Drive home on April 19, 1991, prosecutors said.  Investigators initially thought she died in an accidental fire, but an autopsy the next day revealed she had been rep…