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Brian Nichols timeline 2005-2008
Photographs in a three-year timeline of gunman Brian Nichols who is convicted of murdering Judge Rowland Barnes and court reporter Julie Ann Brandau at the Fulton County Courthouse in 2005 before escaping the facility and gunning down Deputy Sheriff Hoyt Teasley and David Wilhelm, an off-duty federal agent.
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Convicted killer Brian Nichols listens during sentencing in the courtroom of Judge James Bodiford on Saturday, Dec. 13, 2008. Nichols will spend the rest of his life in prison with no possibility of parole for murdering four people and brutally beating a guard, leaving her brain damaged, when he escaped custody at the Fulton County Courthouse on March 11, 2005 where he was on trial for rape. Here is a photo timeline documenting those three years.
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