A couple was shot to death while trying to buy a vintage car in 2015. Their IDs and cell phone just turned up in a creek

A couple was shot to death while trying to buy a vintage car in 2015. Their IDs and cell phone just turned up in a creek

By Jamiel Lynch, Faith Karimi and Christina Maxouris, CNN Atlanta (CNN) – Elrey “Bud” Runion was looking for a 1966 Ford Mustang similar to one he had owned years earlier after returning from the Vietnam War. He placed an ad on Craigslist, hoping to buy a sentimental connection to his past. A potential seller said he had the car in the south Georgia town of McRae. Runion got into his champagne-colored GMC Envoy with his wife, June, and drove the…

Man pleads guilty to killing a Georgia couple lured by a false offer to sell a classic car

McRAE-HELENA, Ga. (AP) — A man has pleaded guilty to murdering a Georgia couple found fatally shot nearly a decade ago after being lured to a rural county by a false offer to sell them a classic car. Ronnie “Jay” Towns pleaded guilty Monday in Telfair County Superior Court to two counts of malice murder in the January 2015 killings of Bud and June Runion. Superior Court Judge Sara Wall sentenced Towns to life in prison with no chance of parole,…