Fresh news delivered to you every day. Visit our Circulation department for print subscription information. S.C. - Forty years after the murder of a cab driver, an Indiana man who was then a young Army recruit at Fort Jackson has been charged with the crime. Orner had been shot in the head.
Investigators say they think robbery was the motive.
Recent ballistics tests matched three lead fragments found in Orner's skull to a .32-caliber revolver that Freiburger bought from a Columbia pawn shop, Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott said Tuesday. The case was reopened in September 1999 by Carl Craig, a retired Fort Jackson military policeman who now volunteers as head of the sheriff's department's Cold Crimes Squad. Craig said a sheriff's lieutenant who knew Orner's stepdaughter, Vernelle Joyner, mentioned the case had remained unsolved for years. My mother was heartbroken like anybody else would be. Craig also had the evidence retested.