Suspected Serial Killer Sparks Multi-State Investigation
Investigators Believed Confessed Killer Responsible For Several Other Murders
UPDATED: 6:15 pm EDT June 9, 2010
He’s been called charming, good looking and disarming and he’s being compared to Ted Bundy.
THEN:
NOW:
Nolan Ray George, 67, has spent little more than 20 years of his life behind bars even though he’s committed some heinous crimes.
Through plea deals, appeals and legal loopholes George has managed to live virtually everyday as a free man since 1992.
But now, a multi-state task force with investigators from MI, OH and KY are working to get him back to prison.
The task force believes George could be responsible for several cold case murders that share a common cause of death—the women were strangled with their undergarments.
In the August 1967, Della Mae Miller's body was found in Ludlow, Kentucky. She had been strangled with her own nylons.
George lived blocks from Lang's Restaurant where Miller worked. Soon after her death, George moved to Pontiac.
“All of a sudden, Michigan had a slew of homicides,” said Bulter County Ohio Sherrif Det. Frank Smith.
A Lake Orion woman was killed, again, strangled with her panty hose. George pleaded guilty in 1969 to second-degree murder in that case.
He was expected to get a lengthy sentence and was eventually handed 40 to 60 years in prison.
Meanwhile, Oakland County investigators had prior cases with the same cause of death, and as part of a plea deal, and in an attempt to solve those crimes, prosecutors allowed George to confess without charges.
In turn, he did confessed to the murder of a Pontiac woman and the near-strangulation death of another, but he did not do time for those crimes.
Oakland County Prosecutor Jessica Cooper just told the Defenders she has not found an original written plea agreement in the case. She's now looking to charge George based on those confession.
But back in the late 60s and 70s George received favorable appeals, and only spend 12 years in a MI prison for second-degree murder. Soon after he was released, he moved to Hamilton, Ohio.
"Within ten months we had our first homicide, Cindy Garland Rose,” said Smith.
“I wish him all the hell and torment that the world can give him,” said Rose’s cousin Annette Preston.
Rose was strangled and left for dead in a grassy area in the rural town of Hamilton.
A beer can near her body had George’s fingerprint.
Medical examiners concluded that Rose died of hyperthermia and under OH law, George could only be charged with manslaughter.
It’s a decision that still angers Preston to this day. “It feels like an extreme injustice,” Preston said.
George spent 10 years in prison in Rose's death.
A killing within weeks of Rose’s death, in which the victim was strangled, has never been solved; George is still a suspect.
“I don't understand how he's in his middle 60s and he's killed women, and what, he's served a total of 21 years out of his life?” said Preston.
George now lives in Amelia, OH near Cincinnati. He’s currently serving out 30 days in jail for a concealed weapons charge and threatening his landlord.
He’s expected to be released in days.
http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/23849561/detail.htmlI do not think we have this case here, if we do...I'll merge.