Nanny Flips on Man Accused of Murdering Spouse Amid Their ‘Inappropriate Relationship’

The Georgia Bureau of Investigation introduced Friday that Jon Worrell, 58, has been charged with Malice Homicide, Felony Homicide, Conspiracy to Commit Homicide, and Aggravated Battery associated to the 2006 loss of life of his spouse, Doris Worrell (seen above).

The information follows an almost 20-year saga marked with false leads, suspicion on the husband, him shifting to Costa Rica with the youngsters and nanny and eventually, his apprehension after shifting again to the US.

Worrell, 39 on the time of her loss of life, was discovered shot and killed contained in the household’s native enterprise, Jon’s Sports activities Park, in Douglas, Georgia.

“Many initially believed that Jon was a grieving husband, and his spouse a sufferer of a theft gone fallacious,” the GBI wrote of their press launch. “There have been preliminary studies of an individual who had been banned by Jon from Jon’s Sports activities Park who might have killed Doris in retaliation. However because the investigation continued, data was supplied that implicated Jon in Doris’s loss of life.”

In the course of the preliminary investigation, GBI says they realized the pair had been having “marital points,” which included what they known as Jon’s “inappropriate relationship” with their live-in nanny, Paola Yarberry. Investigators consider Jon was “involved” a divorce would result in him dropping custody of their three youngsters, so he “started on the lookout for somebody to kill Doris.”

Across the time of Doris’ loss of life, two workers on the Sports activities Park had been arrested for conspiracy to commit homicide, however not sufficient proof was collected to convict them. The fees had been dropped, per the GBI, and one in every of them has since died.

Paola, in keeping with GBI, was deported again to Venezuela over immigration points. It wasn’t lengthy till she was reunited with Jon, nonetheless, after he — as agent Jason Seacrist put it in a press convention — “did what murderers do, he ran.”

Jon allegedly moved to Florida after which Costa Rica together with his youngsters. There, he and Paola allegedly “lived collectively as a pair” elevating the youngsters.

Issues between the couple did not final, although, and “lately,” Jon allegedly moved again to the US. Investigators then traveled to Costa Rica to talk with Paola, who they are saying “ultimately cooperated” — serving to them corroborate intel from each the preliminary and subsequent investigations and securing an arrest warrant for Jon.

He was apprehended in Missouri and extradited to Georgia.

Doris’ older sister, LeAnn Tuggle, spoke on the press convention as nicely and thanked regulation enforcement for all they did to safe Jon’s arrest. “All this work paid off,” stated Tuggle, earlier than sharing reminiscences about her “one and solely sister.”

Tuggle known as her a “very type individual” who “cherished being a mommy” and was “typically … too type for her personal good.” Per her sister, it was Doris who provided Paola a spot to dwell — including, “Her being type is finally what triggered her loss of life, so I hate that about her.”

“This investigation also needs to give hope to the households of victims in different chilly circumstances that the solutions they search are nonetheless being sought,” added Seacrist. “It ought to produce worry and sleepless nights for the offenders in different chilly circumstances as a result of regulation enforcement is not going to cease on the lookout for you.”

Per the GBI, the investigation continues to be energetic and ongoing.