After arriving in the family business in Douglas, Georgia, and that his wife discovered that his wife killed on September 20, 2006, Jon Worrell called 911 and crumpled on the ground in sobs.
His wife, Doris Worrell, was 39 years old when she was killed. The couple had three children who at the time were under 12 years old.
She died of a shot at the head of their business, Jon’s Sports Park, in the middle of her arcade, her hinged cage, her Kart track and her mini-golf journey. It was a recreational destination for the families of this rural part of the southern Georgia, about 130 miles southwest of Savannah.
With such a backdrop, investigators and others in the city of around 12,000 people first thought that Mr. Worrell was as he appeared, a devastated husband.
The authorities said they initially thought that Ms. Worrell died in an attempted flight swallowed or by someone in retaliation for having been excluded from the amusement park by Mr. Worrell.
But Friday, they said they had no doubt that he was behind his death, even if the authorities said that he was not there at the time of the murder and did not yet determine who shot Ms. Worrell.
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