UPDATE: Earnest Talley, 44, of 805 Remunda Drive in Columbus, was arrested in connection with a 14-year-old murder case.
PREVIOUS: Columbus Police Chief Selvain McQueen announced Thursday that the department planned to make an arrest in a more than decade old homicide case. The Columbus Police Department brought in retired investigators to close the case on several unsolved murders, including those of five senior citizens who were killed between July 1996 and November 1998 — Mack Fowler, Robert Hannah, Louise Randall, George Wilbanks and Betty Everett.
Those cases got national exposure, being featured on an edition of the national television series “48 Hours,” where Columbus was likened to Andy Griffith’s Mayberry. Even with the media exposure, the investigation ran cold.
But Friday, McQueen said, police will make an arrest in the 14-year-old Wilbanks case.
Read Friday’s edition of The Dispatch for additional details.
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