ACCORDING TO SPALDING COUNTY ASSISTANT DISTRICT ATTORNEY RANDY COGGIN, 58 YEAR OLD LARRY STANFORD OF GRIFFIN WAS BOUND OVER TO THE SPALDING CO. GRAND JURY-TUESDAY ON CHARGES RELATING TO THE STABBING DEATH OF HIS WIFE PEGGY STANFORD AND ANOTHER MAN, PHILLIP LEAKS, IN HIS 30’S AT THE TIME. THE VICTIMS WERE FOUND IN LEAKS RESIDENCE IN GRIFFIN.
SPALDING COUNTY CHIEF MAGISTRATE JUDGE RITA CAVANAUGH PRESIDED AT THE PRELIMINARY HEARING.
STANFORD WAS ARRESTED FOR THE MURDERS IN 1994, BUT CHARGES WERE DISMISSED IN MAGISTRATE COURT DUE TO LACK OF EVIDENCE. A WITNESS RECENTLY CAME FOWARD WITH NEW INFORMATION ABOUT THE CASE AND STANFORD WAS ARRESTED BY GRIFFIN POLICE FEB. 3.
THE CASE WILL GO TO THE SPALDING COUNTY GRAND JURY MARCH 12.
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