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Warm Glow of Centerville now faces Green Oak Antiques of Rochester, and Birthday Chocolates of Greens Fork competes with Weber Group, Inc., of Sellersburg.
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Legislature: Barrett bill to protect newborns advances through committee to full HouseĬope: Environmental center's leader plans switch to new director's role 15 Chamber Day event.įundraisers: Palette to Palate moves to March 26 The winner will be announced at the chamber's Feb. Should the two local companies win their second-round matchups, they would meet in the third round of the head-to-head, bracket-style competition. Online voting for the second round is open and concludes Sunday. “It’s a hole in your heart that stays.Warm Glow Candle Company and Birthday Chocolates - a pair of Wayne County companies - advanced through the first round of the Indiana Chamber of Commerce's Coolest Thing Made in Indiana tournament. “For the families of these victims, this doesn’t go away,” she said. Planchard said she organized Thursday’s vigil to keep her brother’s memory alive and remember Freeman’s other victims. And a sentence of life in prison in the early 1990s typically meant someone was eligible for parole after seven years.
“I don’t understand how you could kill four people and be paroled.”Īt the time of Freeman’s convictions, Georgia had no sentencing option for life in prison without the possibility of parole, Charron said. “I’d like to keep him in prison,” she said. Planchard now works as a student victim advocate at Georgia Tech, where she helps students cope with the trauma of sexual assault and domestic violence.įreeman was eligible for parole for the first time in 2015 and has another parole hearing set for next year, said Planchard, who is fighting to keep him behind bars. She worked seven years as a victim advocate for the Fulton County District Attorney’s Office and 12 years at the Fulton County Solicitor General’s Office. Amanda Planchard fell into a severe depression and had to drop out of college for a semester.īut she ended up graduating and getting her master’s degree in social work, and has spent her career as an advocate for crime victims. Jeanie Waddell speaks about her sister, Terri Waddell, during a vigil Thursday night in Marietta.Ĭhet Planchard’s slaying devastated his tight-knit family and changed the trajectory of his sister’s life.
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“We had some real strange cases, but we never had what you could almost classify as a serial killer. “It was a real tragic case,” said Charron, who served as DA from 1977 until 1998. The brazen killings rattled the community.
The girl was called as a witness in Freeman’s trials over the next three years. One of the jurors was so upset about the deadlock he refused to accept his pay, The Atlanta Constitution reported at the time.Īmanda Planchard testified during the sentencing phase of her brother’s trial, as did 7-year-old Christina Waddell, who looked on as her mother was fatally shot while ringing up a soda for Freeman in January 1992. The state’s evidence was strong and the jury had no trouble convicting Freeman, but when it came time for sentencing, “this one juror refused to budge,” said former Cobb District Attorney Tom Charron, who tried all of Freeman’s cases.
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He narrowly escaped the death penalty in the 1995 trial over Chet’s shooting after one of the 12 jurors held out. “Never did we imagine that Burger King would be a dangerous place to work for a high school kid,” Amanda said.Īmanda Planchard speaks Thursday night during a vigil for her brother, Chet Planchard, who was one of four people killed by Ronald Freeman 30 years ago.įreeman was ultimately sentenced to life in prison for each of the murders. Investigators also found a children’s toy in his pocket.
“When the cashier - in this case my brother - opened the register to make change, that’s when he was shot without any kind of demand for money.”Ĭhet died clutching the $2 he’d just been handed. “He used the same MO, which was essentially to go in and order something,” Amanda said. He was just the kind of kid that people really gravitated to.”Ī three-sport athlete at Wheeler, Chet Planchard was working a part-time job at the fast-food restaurant to save up for a car when he was gunned down with no warning, his sister said. “I just remember collapsing on the floor,” Amanda Planchard said. She had just started her second semester of college and was visiting friends in the boys’ dormitory when her mother called and told her Chet was dead. Her family had recently moved to Cobb County from Alabama so she could attend Emory University.
He was one of four people fatally shot across Cobb County during a robbery and killing spree that lasted more than two months. Chet Planchard, a Wheeler High School sophomore, was shot and killed in 1992 during a robbery at a Burger King.