William Boyette, the man suspected in the deaths of three women in the Florida Panhandle and south Alabama, turned a gun on  himself Tuesday in a motel in Georgia, according to authorities. Boyette died at the scene and Mary Rice, the woman who was on the run with him, surrendered to authorities.

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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney — pictured during a hearing Monday, Dec. 15, 2025 — has cleared the way for Georgia's State Election Board to obtain Fulton ballots and other documents from the 2020 election. (Arvin Temkar/AJC)

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