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About Marvin Gabrion
- Marvin Charles Gabrion (born October 18, 1953) is an American murderer convicted of the 1997 kidnapping and murder of 19-year-old Rachel Timmerman, of Cedar Springs, Michigan.
- Timmerman and her 18-month-old daughter, Shannon, disappeared two days before Gabrion was set to stand trial on rape charges filed by Rachel the previous summer.
- Rachel's body was found in Oxford Lake, weighted down by cinder blocks.
- Shannon remains missing, but is presumed deceased.
- Gabrion is also the prime suspect in the disappearances and murders of several other people, including a witness who was set to testify against him in the trial for rape, his handyman, another potential witness and family friend and an unknown man.
- The bodies of these people, who were witnesses to his case, are yet to be found, but various of their belongings were recovered from his home.The case received national attention both for the brutality of the crime and for the controversial sentence.
- Michigan abolished the death penalty in 1846, but the body of Timmerman was found within the Huron–Manistee National Forests, a federally-maintained forest, which is not within the legal jurisdiction of the State of Michigan, but is directly subject to U.S.
- federal law - which does authorize the death penalty.
- Gabrion, who was tried in the U.S.
- District Court for the Western District of Michigan, thus is the first person sentenced to death by a federal court located in a non-death penalty state since the federal death penalty was reinstated in 1988.
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