Thursday, April 15, 2010
Man Admits To Pulaski County Murders
KENTUCKY....
Forty-seven year old Michael Andrew Abner of Eubank was sentenced to life in prison without parole this week after pleading guilty to killing three people in Pulaski County over a span of more than 25 years. After he was arrested in January for killing his neighbor, Jack Roerink, a General Motors retiree, police tied him to the long-unsolved murders of two elderly women more than 20 years earlier. Abner admitted breaking into the home of 80 year old Mamie Mercer in October 1983 and killing 87 year old Mae Stringer in December 1988, strangling both victims. Abner would have been eligible for the death penalty, but the victims' families approved a deal for him to spend the rest of his life in prison.
Forty-seven year old Michael Andrew Abner of Eubank was sentenced to life in prison without parole this week after pleading guilty to killing three people in Pulaski County over a span of more than 25 years. After he was arrested in January for killing his neighbor, Jack Roerink, a General Motors retiree, police tied him to the long-unsolved murders of two elderly women more than 20 years earlier. Abner admitted breaking into the home of 80 year old Mamie Mercer in October 1983 and killing 87 year old Mae Stringer in December 1988, strangling both victims. Abner would have been eligible for the death penalty, but the victims' families approved a deal for him to spend the rest of his life in prison.
# posted by Homer Owens @ 10:30 PM 
