The Manatee County Sheriff’s office, with the assistance of the Delaware State Police, charged 72-year-old Stephen L. Ford with the 1996 second-degree murder of Doris A. Korell, a 45-year-old St. Petersburg woman found dead in a ditch along U.S. 41 in Palmetto.

The sheriff’s office, with the assistance of the Delaware State Police, charged Stephen L. Ford, 72, for the 1996 second-degree murder of Doris A. Korell, a 45-year-old St. Petersburg woman found dead in a ditch along U.S. 41 in Palmetto.

Stephen Ford, 72, faces second-degree murder charges after deputies alleged he killed his girlfriend and left her in a Palmetto drainage canal.

Two men accused of fatally shooting a 46-year-old man during a robbery attempt will spend decades in prison, Manatee County court records say. Benjamin Johnson Jr., 33, and Larry Johnson Jr., 34, pleaded no contest to charges of second-degree murder with a firearm ahead of their scheduled joint trial for the 2021 killing of Andre Cummins,