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After a magnet fisher reeled in a rifle from a creek, a Georgia couple's cold case murder ends with a guilty plea

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Ronnie Jay Towns pleaded guilty to the 2015 murders of Bud and June Runion and was sentenced to life in prison without parole.

The couple's bodies were discovered off a county road in January 2015 and authorities said they had been robbed.

In April , someone using a magnet fishing in a Georgia creek reeled in a rifle and other evidence linked to the cold case.

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