CUSSETA, Ga. (AP) — In a case that went unresolved for four decades, a Georgia grand jury has charged an inmate with murder in 1982 for killing a young Army soldier who shot him on a roadside weeks after her last visit was found leaves their barracks.
Authorities announced that a grand jury in rural Chattahoochee County near the Georgia-Alabama line has indicted 64-year-old Marcellus McCluster, who already has a life sentence of murder in an unrelated case of the murder of Rene Dawn Blackmore 40 years ago has served.
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