Sentencing For First Suspect In Aurora Double Murder Tuesday

Margie Thompson will be formally sentenced for her role in the 2018 murders of Walter Bryant Jr. and Faith Craig.

Margie Thompson will be sentenced in Dearborn Circuit Court on Tuesday, March 26. Photo by Dearborn County Sheriff's Office. 

(Lawrenceburg, Ind.) - Sentencing happens Tuesday for one of the two people accused in the brutal murders of a Vietnam War veteran and his daughter in Aurora.

Margie Thompson and Cody Wayne Booth are accused of stabbing to death Walter Bryant Jr. and his daughter, Faith Craig, in January of 2018 in order to rob them for money to buy drugs. Among the items stolen from Bryant and pawned for cash were Bryant's Purple Heart medals.

The victims were Booth’s mother and grandfather.

Margie Thompson pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in February and is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge James D. Humphrey in Dearborn County Circuit Court at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday. Eagle Country 99.3 will have the hearing covered.

Meanwhile, Cody Booth has not pleaded guilty and is scheduled to go to trial for murder in September.

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