Nearly 20 years after a former teacher and mother-of-three was found shot dead at the sports park she operated with her husband, police say they have found her killer.
Jon Worrell, 58, was arrested in Missouri on Tuesday and was charged with malice murder, felony murder, conspiracy to commit murder and aggravated battery in the September 20, 2006 death of his wife Doris, 39, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation announced this week.
They said the big break came in April, when investigators traveled to Costa Rica and spoke with the family's former live-in nanny - with whom Jon apparently pursued a relationship following his wife's death.
His arrest on Tuesday - which came just two days after what would have been Doris' 57th birthday, according to WALB - marked an end to nearly two decades of investigation in which authorities pursued leads in both the United States and overseas.
Police had initially believed Doris' murder was the result of a botched robbery or was retaliation by someone who had been banned from Jon's Sports Park in rural Douglas, Georgia.
