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Trial set for two of six suspects in murder case
Posted: 09.08.2010 at 4:54 PM
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Two of the six suspects arrested in the August 2008 shooting death of an Aynor man are set to appear for trial next week.

Charles Skipper, 28, and Crystal Turner, 29, are scheduled to be tried together beginning Monday, Sept. 13, said Assistant Horry County Solicitor Larry Filiberto.

Skipper is charged with murder and armed robbery, and Turner is charged with accessory before the fact of murder and accessory before the fact of armed Robbery, Filiberto said.

Skipper and Turner were arrested along with four others after Ronald Rabon was found shot to death on a dirt road near Aynor in September 2008.

Prosecutors also charged Stacey Johnson, Paige Furniss, Luther Oxendine and Jamie Dean White with murder and armed robbery.

Filiberto said the remaining four are "available" to testify for the state, but who may be called is unclear.

The charges against them are pending, and Filiberto wouldn't speculate on what would happen to their charges after next week's trial.

On August 14, 2008, a dump truck driver discovered Rabon's body on Tobacco Leaf Road in Aynor.

Within a few weeks, all six suspects were charged, and the series of events began to unfold.

Prosecutors say Crystal Turner was the mastermind of the plot and came up with a plan for Stacey Johnson to entice Rabon to leave a bar to rob him.

The story, according to the prosecutors, is that Johnson drove Rabon to Tobacco Leaf Road when another car, driven by Paige Furniss, drove up. Inside were the accused triggerman Charles Skipper, as well as Jamie Dean White and Luther Oxendine.

Robert Rabon was 54 years old.

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