Stacy Lee Drake was convicted in the 2010, carjacking of a 1993 GMC Sonoma. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison but placed on supervised release.
Police released surveillance footage from an Arkansas hotel where a suspect in four murders was last seen in the parking lot.Stacy Lee Drake, who lived as a transient in Birmingham, is wanted on three carjacking killings in Oklahoma and theThree people were killed this week in Oklahoma - one victim in El Reno, and the other two in Gans. Those locations are about three hours apart.
The vehicle Drake reportedly took during one of the crimes was found late Tuesday night parked at a hotel in Morrilton, Arkansas. “Rusty was a caring and generous individual, always striving to help others until the very end. He possessed a wonderful, cheerful sense of humor and was talented in many areas, including carpentry and gardening,’’“He also had a keen interest in picking stocks. Rusty attended Tuscaloosa High School and was a proud member of the class of 1980.”
Investigators used multiple resources in an attempt to identify the suspect. These included electronic, forensic, and eventually human eyewitnesses, Kennedy said.“Beginning with almost no information and a false name, the shared resources of VCU working together and the processes used in this case to identify Drake should be considered a major success,’’ he said.
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