Carlton Gary, right, on the night of his arrest, with Detective Mike Sellers, May 3, 1984.
(Ed Ellis/The Columbus Ledger-Enquirer Group)
The case of the Columbus Stocking Strangler is back in the news. The death row inmate convicted of the serial killings in the 1970's is appealing the decision.
Defense and prosecutors in the case of the 1977-78 slayings of seven Columbus women, argued their points in Atlanta's 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.
A three-judge panel will decide if Carlton Gary, convicted in 1986, gets a new trial. He's now sitting in prison for the rape and murder of three of the victims.
Tim Chitwood, a columnist at Columbus's Ledger-Enquirer newspaper has closely followed the case. He told GPB News that castings of a bite mark on the last victim may be crucial:
“That evidence was not introduced at the trial, and the defense did not learn about it until much later, and that's really been a point of contention, that they feel this evidence should have been turned over so that they could use it as exculpatory evidence indicating Gary was not the strangler.”Chitwood says the panel is expected to render their decision in a little over a month.
