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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 ...
Marvin Charles Gabrion: 71 09184-055 Originally sentenced to death on March 16, 2002. [5] Transferred to MCFP Springfield. Convicted in 2002 of the 1997 kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman on federal land; she had accused Gabrion of rape. Gabrion was the first person to receive a federal death sentence after the federal death ...
Gabrion had previously raped Timmerman on August 7, 1996, and two days before the trial she went missing. The murder took place in Michigan, which does not have the death penalty, but the body was found in Manistee National Forest, which is federal land. On appeal, his defense team argued that they should consider any reasonable doubt they have ...
Robert Holmes Bell, a federal judge for 30 years whose trials included one that led to a rare death sentence in Michigan, has died. Bell died Thursday, Michelle Benham, the court’s chief deputy ...
Shannon and her mother, Rachel Timmerman, were last seen leaving on a date with an unknown co-worker of Timmerman. The co-worker was later linked to a man named Marvin Gabrion, whom Rachel was preparing to testify against for raping her the previous year. Rachel's body was later found floating in Oxford lake. Gabrion is on death row for the murder.
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 is 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.
Marvin, 63, was found lying dead in the driveway by arriving Bartow Police officers. ... Voigt also had a run-in with cops just a week before the alleged murder of his parents, according to local ...
He is facing capital murder and aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon charges, according to HPD. Jail records show that he was booked last Thursday. "Normal people don't do this. This isn't a ...