Court upholds murder conviction
The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday, by a 5-2 vote, upheld the murder conviction against Timothy Boothe for killing Geneva Strickland.
Before the murder, Strickland had hired Boothe to paint her home and repair her car. On the night of Oct. 31, 2007, firefighters reponded to a fire at her home and found Strickland, her wrists and legs bound and her mouth covered with a bandage, dead of carbon monoxide poisoning and suffocation. Tests identified Boothe’s nuclear DNA inside a blue latex glove found wrapped in the bandage covering Strickland’s mouth, the ruling said.
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Bill Rankin has been an AJC reporter for more than 30 years. His father, Jim Rankin, worked as an editor for the newspaper for 26 years, retiring in 1986. Bill has primarily covered the state’s court system, doing all he can do to keep the scales of justice on an even keel. Since 2015, he has been the host of the newspaper’s Breakdown podcast.
