Jon Worrell, who fled with the nanny after the death of his Georgia woman Doris Worrell

Savannah, Georgia
AP
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The investigators believed for the first time that Doris Worrell was killed in a botched robbery after her husband found her fatal shot in the South Georgia business in 2006. When the suspicion later turned to Worrell's husband, he fled from the USA to live in Costa Rica with the couple's live-in-nanny.

Almost 19 years later, Jon Worrell was detained on Thursday for murder in the rural coffee group, where the sheriff said that the authorities had never given up the cold case. They took a big break in April when the investigators traveled to Costa Rica and the nannies were ready to speak to Worrell after the end of their relationship.

Worrell was arrested in his house in Missouri north of Kansas City on Tuesday. He refrained from delivering to Georgia and arrived in the County Coffee prison late Thursday.

“This case was never forgotten,” Sheriff Fred Cole told the reporters at a press conference on Friday. “And although the road was long and often frustrating, we never gave up. Justice delayed is still justice.”

Doris Worrell had worked as a teacher and interior design before deciding to stay at home to raise three children. She and her husband ran a leisure business, Jons Sportpark, in the small community of Douglas, about 130 miles southwest of Savannah.

Worrell called the police out of the business on September 20, 2006 and said he had returned from errands to find his wife's body.

“Many believed that he was a mourning husband and his wife was the victim of a robbery who had gone wrong,” said Jason Seacrist, Agent at the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

Theories about Doris Worrell's killing developed when the investigators gained further evidence. In 2008, two employees of the sports park were accused of being conspirators for their murder, but the case was dropped due to a lack of evidence.

In the meantime, the investigators learned that Worrell had an affair with the nanny at the time of his wife's death.

“Jon was concerned that he would lose his children if he divorced from Doris,” said Seacist. “And it is these thoughts that prompted him to recruit someone to murder his wife.”

He said that Worrell fled to Costa Rica, where he and the nannies lived together for years while he grew up the children of the Worrells.

Then the investigators learned that the relationship had ended and Worrell had returned to the USA.

The investigators of Georgia and Sheriff traveled to Costa Rica in April and met with the Nanny, said the sheriff. He said that information that she provided provided with other evidence that the authorities had been collected for years.

Doris Worrell's sister Leann Tuggle thanked the investigators for their persistence. She remembered her sister as a talented artist and loving mother, who had agreed to let the nannies live in her house because the young woman had to stay anywhere else.

“Sometimes she was too friendly to her own well -being,” said Tuggle. “Ultimately, its kind is what caused her death.”

The authorities are still trying to determine who shot Doris Worrell. One of men who were charged with the murder 17 years ago and later released has died, said Seacist, while the other recently got out of prison in a non -related case.

The nanny was not charged.

“In our thoughts she is not a suspect,” said Seacist.