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Someone fishing with a magnet dredged up vital new evidence in a couple?s killing

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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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