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   From: fat-assed@fani.willis   
      
   Aperson magnet fishing in a Georgia creek pulled up a rifle as well as   
   some lost belongings of a couple found slain in the same area more than   
   nine years ago.   
      
   The Georgia Bureau of Investigation says driver's licenses, credit cards   
   and other items dragged from Horse Creek in rural Telfair County are “new   
   evidence” in a murder case that's still awaiting trial.   
      
   A person who was magnet fishing in the creek on April 14 discovered a .22-   
   caliber rifle, the GBI said in a news release Monday.   
      
   They returned to the same spot two days later and made another find: A bag   
   containing a cellphone, a pair of driver's licenses and credit cards.   
      
   The agency says the licenses and credit cards belonged to Bud and June   
   Runion. The couple was robbed and fatally shot before their bodies were   
   discovered off a county road in January 2015.   
      
   Authorities say the couple, from Marietta north of Atlanta, made the   
   three-hour drive to Telfair County to meet someone offering to sell Bud   
   Runion a 1966 Mustang.   
      
   A few days later, investigators arrested Ronnie Adrian “Jay” Towns on   
   charges of armed robbery and murder. They said Towns lured the couple to   
   Telfair County by replying to an online ad that the 69-year-old Bud Runion   
   had posted seeking a classic car, though Towns didn't own such a vehicle.   
      
   Towns is tentatively scheduled to stand trial in August, more than nine   
   years after his arrest, according to the GBI. His defense attorney,   
   Franklin Hogue, did not immediately return phone and email messages   
   seeking comment Tuesday.   
      
   The items found in the creek led investigators to obtain warrants to   
   search a Telfair County home where they recovered additional evidence, the   
   GBI's statement said. The agency gave no further details.   
      
   Georgia courts threw out Towns' first indictment over problems with how   
   the grand jury was selected — a prolonged legal battle that concluded in   
   2019. Towns was indicted for a second time in the killings in 2020, and   
   the case was delayed again by the COVID-19 pandemic. He has pleaded not   
   guilty.   
      
   Court proceedings have also likely been slowed by prosecutors' decision to   
   seek the death penalty, which requires extra pretrial legal steps.   
      
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