A cold case heating up in Georgia after a 19-year-old murder case after investigators arrest Jon Worrell for the 2006 murder of his then-wife, Doris.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Crime Lord Hourly update, Breaking crime News Now. A nineteen
year old cold case in Georgia just heated up in
a big way with the arrest of someone very close
to the investigation from the very start. On September twentieth,
two thousand and six, father of three, John Worrel reports
finding his thirty nine year old wife shot dead in
the recreation business they run together, John Sports Park in Douglas, Georgia.
(00:24):
John Worrel is seen as the grieving husband and now
single dad to three children, two girls and a boy,
while Doris is seen as the victim of a robbery
gone wrong or possibly the victim of a deranged patron
banned from the facility seeking revenge. In the early stages
of the investigation, two men glidden Humberto Rodriguez and Brandon
(00:45):
Eugene Cage are arrested with conspiracy to murder Doris, but
as the investigation continued there was not enough evidence to
convict either person. Since their arrest, one has died and
the other was released from prison. As investigators learned more
about the relationship between Doris and John Worrel, they realized
the grieving husband might have something to hide. The Worrel's
(01:08):
marriage was having some serious issues, with one of the
issues being John's inappropriate relationship with their then live in nanny,
eighteen year old Paula Garberry. Concerned that a divorce from
Doris would cost him everything, including the children, that Georgia
Bureau of Investigation believes John began looking for someone to
kill Doris. GBI Special Agent in charge Jason Seacrest says
(01:32):
after Doris's murder, when John lost sympathy and the investigation
began to highlight him, he did what murderers do. He ran. First,
John Worrel went to Fernandina Beach, Florida, Then, with the
kids in tow, he went to Costa Rica. Paula was
sent to an immigration facility and deported because she did
not have the Craig paperwork. When John and Paula were
(01:55):
spotted together in Costa Rica, they denied being in a relationship,
but they remained together and raise the worl children as
their own. In recent years, John and Paula ended their
relationship and John moved back to the United States, and
during this same time, a new GBI agent was assigned
to the case and devised a creative investigative game plan.
(02:18):
The GBI and the Coffee County Sheriff's Office worked on
a plan together that took them to visit with Paula
Yarberry in Costa Rica. Yarberry is not considered a suspect
in the death of Doris Warrel, and she's no longer
in a relationship with John Worrel. Doesn't take investigators long
to get her to open up about her former flame.
GBI Special Agent in Charge Jason Seacrest said this about
(02:40):
the investigation.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Sometimes, slow steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives
like a thunderbolt. Today, that slow, steady justice, and that
thunderbolt is to announce the arrest of John Worrel for
the murder of his then wife.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Dors Warld. John Worrel is arrested in Maryville, Missouri, after
a nineteen year investigation and is charged with malice murder,
felony murder, conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated battery. Now back
in Coffee County, Georgia, John Worrell made his first court
appearance where bond was denied. Watch Crime Stories with Nancy
(03:21):
Grace on Merit TV Monday through Friday, six and nine pm. Eastern.
Check your local listings for channel assignment, and subscribe to
the Crime Stories with Nancy Grace podcast on your favorite
podcasting app. The trial for accused quadruple killer Brian Coberger
(03:44):
is scheduled to begin in August, and the families of
the victims are facing financial realities that for most would
be difficult to handle without a little help. The families
have to take care of their own food, shelter, travel,
and other expenses for a trial that is expected to
last three months. The mother of Xanna Cronodle, Kara Northington,
is now asking for financial help to be able to
attend the trial. Laurie Scott, a friend of Northington, started
(04:07):
to gofund me to make sure Kara can make the
four hundred mile trip from where she lives in North
Idaho to Boise.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Everybody had like people raising money for them, and I
just noticed that she hadn't asked for anything, and I
just wanted to make it so she could be there
for the trial because that's important that she'd be able
to see for herself that justice is being served in this.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All of the victims' families have GoFundMe sites and are
each near or at their goal amounts. The goal for
Kara Northington is fifty thousand dollars, with the funds being
used to cover Kara's expenses as she takes off for
work and relocates to Boise for the duration of the trial.
An ex con who spent nearly twenty years behind bars
(04:53):
has been arrested for allegedly using a drone to drop
contraband into a Florida prison yard. Investigators charge that Kayed Ash,
forty six, flew the drone over the Martin County institution
around two forty five am. The lockup houses fifteen hundred
male inmates in Florida. After the prison experienced eight pre
(05:13):
dawned drone drops over a two week period of time,
detectives began patrolling the area around the prison. The prison's
drone detection system identified a common flightpath followed by a
Dji brand drone suspected of delivering contraband like phones and cigarettes.
An investigator spotted a drone in between the prison and
(05:33):
the work camp and followed it to a landing spot
atop an suv that had been parked on the side
of a nearby road. Dressed all in black, Ash was
seen exiting his SUV as the drone descended toward the
vehicle and was detained for questioning. A close up inspection
of the drone showed the lights had been covered by
black tape so as to cancel how lit the drone
(05:54):
would be at night. Cops also noted that the drone
was outfitted with a payload release lever, which tells the
cops he was only in the area of the prison
to quote practice flying his drone as there is no traffic,
and claimed to have only been around the prison once
over the last few weeks. However, Ash's car was detected
by traffic cameras and license plate readers on multiple occasions
(06:17):
in the area around the prison. During this period of time,
when contraband drops were discovered by jailers, the prison's drone
detection system showed a DJI model flying in the same
path used by Ash. Also, Ash told investigators that nothing
was attached to the lever system that allows packages to
be dropped from the drone, but police concluded there was
(06:39):
probable cause to charge him with attempted introduction of contraband
into a correctional facility and flying a drone over a prison.
Police say when illegal items find their way into prison.
Criminal gangs inside the prison used the contraband to help
establish their control. Ash lives about forty miles from the
prison and is being held without bond until an initial
(06:59):
court ard appearance. The Florida Department of Corrections records show
that Ash was released from state prison in twenty seventeen
after serving nineteen years in custody for a series of
armed robberies. For the latest crime injustice news, follow Crime
Alert hourly update on your favorite podcasting app with this
crime Alert, I'm Dave Mack.
Crime Lord Hourly update, Breaking crime News Now. A nineteen
year old cold case in Georgia just heated up in
a big way with the arrest of someone very close
to the investigation from the very start. On September twentieth,
two thousand and six, father of three, John Worrel reports
finding his thirty nine year old wife shot dead in
the recreation business they run together, John Sports Park in Douglas, Georgia.
(00:24):
John Worrel is seen as the grieving husband and now
single dad to three children, two girls and a boy,
while Doris is seen as the victim of a robbery
gone wrong or possibly the victim of a deranged patron
banned from the facility seeking revenge. In the early stages
of the investigation, two men glidden Humberto Rodriguez and Brandon
(00:45):
Eugene Cage are arrested with conspiracy to murder Doris, but
as the investigation continued there was not enough evidence to
convict either person. Since their arrest, one has died and
the other was released from prison. As investigators learned more
about the relationship between Doris and John Worrel, they realized
the grieving husband might have something to hide. The Worrel's
(01:08):
marriage was having some serious issues, with one of the
issues being John's inappropriate relationship with their then live in nanny,
eighteen year old Paula Garberry. Concerned that a divorce from
Doris would cost him everything, including the children, that Georgia
Bureau of Investigation believes John began looking for someone to
kill Doris. GBI Special Agent in charge Jason Seacrest says
(01:32):
after Doris's murder, when John lost sympathy and the investigation
began to highlight him, he did what murderers do. He ran. First,
John Worrel went to Fernandina Beach, Florida, Then, with the
kids in tow, he went to Costa Rica. Paula was
sent to an immigration facility and deported because she did
not have the Craig paperwork. When John and Paula were
(01:55):
spotted together in Costa Rica, they denied being in a relationship,
but they remained together and raise the worl children as
their own. In recent years, John and Paula ended their
relationship and John moved back to the United States, and
during this same time, a new GBI agent was assigned
to the case and devised a creative investigative game plan.
(02:18):
The GBI and the Coffee County Sheriff's Office worked on
a plan together that took them to visit with Paula
Yarberry in Costa Rica. Yarberry is not considered a suspect
in the death of Doris Warrel, and she's no longer
in a relationship with John Worrel. Doesn't take investigators long
to get her to open up about her former flame.
GBI Special Agent in Charge Jason Seacrest said this about
(02:40):
the investigation.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
Sometimes, slow steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives
like a thunderbolt. Today, that slow, steady justice, and that
thunderbolt is to announce the arrest of John Worrel for
the murder of his then wife.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Dors Warld. John Worrel is arrested in Maryville, Missouri, after
a nineteen year investigation and is charged with malice murder,
felony murder, conspiracy to commit murder, aggravated battery. Now back
in Coffee County, Georgia, John Worrell made his first court
appearance where bond was denied. Watch Crime Stories with Nancy
(03:21):
Grace on Merit TV Monday through Friday, six and nine pm. Eastern.
Check your local listings for channel assignment, and subscribe to
the Crime Stories with Nancy Grace podcast on your favorite
podcasting app. The trial for accused quadruple killer Brian Coberger
(03:44):
is scheduled to begin in August, and the families of
the victims are facing financial realities that for most would
be difficult to handle without a little help. The families
have to take care of their own food, shelter, travel,
and other expenses for a trial that is expected to
last three months. The mother of Xanna Cronodle, Kara Northington,
is now asking for financial help to be able to
attend the trial. Laurie Scott, a friend of Northington, started
(04:07):
to gofund me to make sure Kara can make the
four hundred mile trip from where she lives in North
Idaho to Boise.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Everybody had like people raising money for them, and I
just noticed that she hadn't asked for anything, and I
just wanted to make it so she could be there
for the trial because that's important that she'd be able
to see for herself that justice is being served in this.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
All of the victims' families have GoFundMe sites and are
each near or at their goal amounts. The goal for
Kara Northington is fifty thousand dollars, with the funds being
used to cover Kara's expenses as she takes off for
work and relocates to Boise for the duration of the trial.
An ex con who spent nearly twenty years behind bars
(04:53):
has been arrested for allegedly using a drone to drop
contraband into a Florida prison yard. Investigators charge that Kayed Ash,
forty six, flew the drone over the Martin County institution
around two forty five am. The lockup houses fifteen hundred
male inmates in Florida. After the prison experienced eight pre
(05:13):
dawned drone drops over a two week period of time,
detectives began patrolling the area around the prison. The prison's
drone detection system identified a common flightpath followed by a
Dji brand drone suspected of delivering contraband like phones and cigarettes.
An investigator spotted a drone in between the prison and
(05:33):
the work camp and followed it to a landing spot
atop an suv that had been parked on the side
of a nearby road. Dressed all in black, Ash was
seen exiting his SUV as the drone descended toward the
vehicle and was detained for questioning. A close up inspection
of the drone showed the lights had been covered by
black tape so as to cancel how lit the drone
(05:54):
would be at night. Cops also noted that the drone
was outfitted with a payload release lever, which tells the
cops he was only in the area of the prison
to quote practice flying his drone as there is no traffic,
and claimed to have only been around the prison once
over the last few weeks. However, Ash's car was detected
by traffic cameras and license plate readers on multiple occasions
(06:17):
in the area around the prison. During this period of time,
when contraband drops were discovered by jailers, the prison's drone
detection system showed a DJI model flying in the same
path used by Ash. Also, Ash told investigators that nothing
was attached to the lever system that allows packages to
be dropped from the drone, but police concluded there was
(06:39):
probable cause to charge him with attempted introduction of contraband
into a correctional facility and flying a drone over a prison.
Police say when illegal items find their way into prison.
Criminal gangs inside the prison used the contraband to help
establish their control. Ash lives about forty miles from the
prison and is being held without bond until an initial
(06:59):
court ard appearance. The Florida Department of Corrections records show
that Ash was released from state prison in twenty seventeen
after serving nineteen years in custody for a series of
armed robberies. For the latest crime injustice news, follow Crime
Alert hourly update on your favorite podcasting app with this
crime Alert, I'm Dave Mack.
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