Prosecutors in Georgia scored a murder conviction thanks in part to a magnet fisherman’s discovery of a gun and victim IDs in a river nearly a decade after a double homicide.
Ronnie “Jay” Towns, 38, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder on Monday, and a judge sentenced him to two consecutive life sentences in prison, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported . In January 2015, he tricked 69-year-old Bud Runion and his 66-year-old wife, June Runion, into making the three-hour drive from their Cobb County home to Telfair County to buy a 1966 Ford Mustang after seeing an ad on Craig’s List. But there was no car, and it was just a ruse to rob and murder them.
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