FLEMINGSBURG — The three men charged with the murders of Marlane Mauk and Donald Walker in Fleming County remain incarcerated in Ohio awaiting extradition.
Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Gary Adkins said the men are fighting extradition. If a person chooses to fight extradition, a warrant must be issued by the governor of Ohio in order to extradite the men and get them back to Kentucky where they will officially face the charges. Adkins said the process to receive a governor’s warrant has been started.
The three men arrested in connection with the six-year-old double murder investigation include 36-year-old Rodney Dodson who is in the Montgomery County, Ohio, Detention Center. He is being held without bond and is scheduled to appear in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court June 9 for an extradition hearing.
Ronald Fairchild, 43, and Jason Jackson, 36, are lodged in the Greene County Jail in Xenia, Ohio. Bond has been set at $200,000 cash or surety, according to the jail website. Both men are scheduled to appear in Xenia Municipal Court June 16.
The men were arrested May 10. Each man has been charged with murder for the May 6, 2005, shooting deaths of Mauk and Walker. Jackson has also been charged with first-degree robbery and tampering with physical evidence for his role in the deaths, according to the Kentucky State Police.
Theft and drugs have been named as potential motives for the murders, as Walker was known to have several thousand dollars on him prior to the murders occurring. Police have said that Mauk was likely in the “wrong place at the wrong time.”
The couple were shot at close range by a handgun, their bodies discovered in separate rooms of their mobile home residence on Routt Road near Goddard Bridge.
