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Man who killed his parents gets life prison term
DAYTON — Gary Kyle Marshall, accused of beating his parents to death last summer, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole Thursday, Jan. 14, after he pleaded guilty to two counts of aggravated murder and other felonies.
Earlier Thursday, Marshall was indicted on the aggravated murder counts, plus two counts of felonious assault, two counts of aggravated robbery and one count of grand theft of a motor vehicle. He pleaded guilty to all counts.
Marshall, 37, of Union, appeared before Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Michael T. Hall, who sentenced him to two consecutive life-without-parole sentences for the murder counts, plus 33 years and six months for the other counts, which would be consecutive to the life sentences.
Marshall, a heroin user, was the only child of David and Susie Marshall and was living with them at the time of their deaths.
Though Marshall declined to say anything, his attorneys, Jeff Rezabek and Mike Monta, both told Hall that Marshall was remorseful for what happened.
Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office victim-witness advocate Skye McKenna read a victim impact statement from the family.
“Gary has caused so much hurt to so many people,” McKenna read. “All of us have gone through pain, disbelief, shock and anger.”
The statement noted that David Marshall earned seven medals during two tours of duty in Vietnam.
“The families feel Gary has no remorse, no sorry for anything he has done,” McKenna read. “We believe Gary has no conscience at all.”
Marshall could have been eligible for the death penalty, assistant county prosecutors Tracey Ballard Tangeman and Dan Brandt said after the sentencing.
“We think justice was served,” Tangeman said. “It has been a devastating loss to the family.”
Marshall had been in the Montgomery County Jail since his Aug. 1 arrest, when Botkins police stopped him while he was driving his father’s truck. The arrest was hours before his parents’ bodies were found.
Botkins police said that, during the arrest, they found syringes and smoking pipes containing heroin residue, as well as items belonging to Marshall’s parents.
Marshall, who had shoulder-length hair at the time of his arrest, had a crew cut during his Thursday court appearance.
The bodies of David Marshall, 65, and Susie Marshall, 61, were found Aug. 1 at their home at 53 Greencliff Drive in Union. Officers went there on a welfare check after relatives had not heard from the Marshalls for several days.
Their deaths, which have been ruled homicides, were caused by blunt force trauma to their heads, according to the Montgomery County Coroner’s Office.
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