A motions hearing is scheduled today for 64-year-old Charles Cook, the drifter charged with murdering 76-year-old Myrtle McGill at her home along South 6th Street in Indiana exactly 26 years ago today.
Cook was arrested last October in Minnesota, a few months after his release from jail there. He was extradited to Indiana County in February. In October, Cook’s attorney filed an omnibus pretrial motion for relief, which could lead to the dropping of the charges against him.
Cook has served prison sentences in eight states for numerous crimes, including burglary, rape, drug dealing, and assault. Investigators say that in 1991, he was released from prison in Dallas, PA and instead of reporting to a Philadelphia halfway house, he took a bus across the state to Indiana, where he shot McGill through her kitchen window and stole her car. Police found the car at the Pittsburgh Greyhound bus terminal and in 2007 his DNA was identified on a cigarette butt found inside of it.
Cook is charged with criminal homicide and robbery. No trial date has been set. He is scheduled for Criminal Call on January 5th.
[xyz-ihs snippet=”ST-Bank”]
