Checking in on recent court action in two homicide cases today:
Indiana County President Judge William Martin has scheduled a pretrial omnibus motions hearing 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 in December of 1991. Investigators tracked down Cook last March in Minnesota. He was taken into custody in October, and extradited to Indiana County in February. Cook has spent time in prison in eight states, for crimes ranging from burglary drug dealing, rape, and assault.
Earlier this month, Cook filed a motion for the appointment of a new attorney, which was forwarded to the public defender’s office.
Judge Thomas Bianco has scheduled motions hearings for next month for the two men charged in the murders of Timothy Gardner and Jacqueline Brink at their Cherryhill Township apartment. The couple was beaten to death a year ago this coming Friday in what police say was a planned robbery and assault during a marijuana deal.
19-year-old Nathan Price will have his hearing on November 15th and 20-year-old Justin Stevenson’s hearing will be on November 17th. A third suspect, Isaiah Scott, is facing charges through the juvenile court system.
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