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Marvin Charles Gabrion (born October 18, 1953) is an American murderer, rapist, and suspected serial killer convicted of the 1997 kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman, of Cedar Springs, Michigan. Timmerman and her 11-month-old daughter, Shannon, disappeared two days before Gabrion was set to stand trial on rape charges filed by ...
The 2002 conviction of Marvin Gabrion received national attention when he was sentenced to death for the murder of Rachel Timmerman in Newaygo County, Michigan. Gabrion was also suspected of four other killings but was never tried for them, including the murder of Rachel Timmerman's 11-month-old daughter Shannon Verhage.
Gabrion is serving his sentence at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield, Missouri. President Biden commuted the sentence of 37 of the 40 people on federal death row, converting ...
Marvin Charles Gabrion: 09184-055 Serving a life sentence, commuted from the death penalty. Originally sentenced to death on March 16, 2002. Convicted in 2002 of the 1997 kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman, who had accused Gabrion of rape; Tried federally as victim's body was found on federal land. Gabrion was the first ...
“Our family had been trying to get Marvin’s story out for 19 years,” the Minnesota man’s sister said. 17-year-old sentenced to life in prison exonerated 20 years later. ‘I was relentless’
One notable case during Bell's federal judicial service was the 2002 trial of Marvin Gabrion, where Bell ordered a death sentence for Gabrion after the U.S. Justice Department told prosecutors to ask jurors for the death sentence, to which the jurors agreed. [5] Gabrion remains on death row as of 2023. [5]
President Biden on Monday commuted the sentences of 37 people on federal death row, leaving only three “hard cases” before President-elect Trump takes the White House on Jan. 20. The 37 ...
In May 2013, Kethledge wrote for the en banc circuit when it affirmed the death sentence of Marvin Gabrion. [7] [32] Gabrion had murdered Rachel Timmerman, a 19-year-old woman who had reported him for raping her. He bound and gagged her, tied her to concrete blocks, and drowned her in a weedy lake.