Jury finds woman guilty in '04 death of cyclist Salt Lake Tribune WEST JORDAN -- A woman who struck and killed a bicyclist in Big Cottonwood Canyon last year has been found guilty of negligent homicide. A 3rd District Court jury returned the verdict against Elizabeth DeSeelhorst Thursday afternoon following about five hours of deliberation. DeSeelhorst, 67, faces up to a year in jail when she is sentenced by Judge Royal Hansen. Despite a defense strategy that sought to lay the blame for the crash on her history of mini-strokes, the jury decided that DeSeelhorst was criminally negligent when she struck and killed 25-year-old Josie Johnson on Sept. 18, 2004, crash The incident prompted a highly vocal outcry in Utah's cycling community, which has complained for years about motorists' inattentiveness to cyclists.