Jeana (DP)
Former Member
A producer for the television show Dateline NBC has offered the governors of Texas and Florida a deal: waive the death penalty for a murder suspect and he'll help solve three murder cases in their states.
Producer Shane Bishop offered the deal to Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in a letter dated Nov. 29... The letter offers to help solve the cold cases if the governors would “guarantee not to pursue the death penalty” against an Arkansas convict serving life without parole for murder.
Michael Ronning “has admitted to me that he has committed a total of seven murders,” Bishop wrote, insisting he is “convinced” that Ronning killed Annette Melia, 20, in Arlington in September 1982 and Melissa Jackson, 16, who disappeared from a Grand Prairie apartment building in Aug. 12, 1983.
The remains of both victims were eventually found a few hundreds yards from each other, according to the letter.
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121005/sta_121005090.shtml#.VescQbT8FWY
Producer Shane Bishop offered the deal to Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush in a letter dated Nov. 29... The letter offers to help solve the cold cases if the governors would “guarantee not to pursue the death penalty” against an Arkansas convict serving life without parole for murder.
Michael Ronning “has admitted to me that he has committed a total of seven murders,” Bishop wrote, insisting he is “convinced” that Ronning killed Annette Melia, 20, in Arlington in September 1982 and Melissa Jackson, 16, who disappeared from a Grand Prairie apartment building in Aug. 12, 1983.
The remains of both victims were eventually found a few hundreds yards from each other, according to the letter.
http://lubbockonline.com/stories/121005/sta_121005090.shtml#.VescQbT8FWY