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class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">June 28, 2005<span style="display:none">(2005-06-28)</span> (aged 70)<br /><div style="display:inline" class="deathplace">Southern Michigan Correctional Facility, <a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan" title="Jackson, Michigan">Jackson, Michigan</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Conviction" title="Conviction">Conviction(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Murder" title="Murder">Murder</a> x2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal penalty</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment" title="Life imprisonment">Life imprisonment</a> without parole x2</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header">Details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Victims</th><td class="infobox-data">2–5+</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Span of crimes</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1950–1987</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Country</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">State(s)</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Michigan" title="Michigan">Michigan</a><br />(possibly <a href="/wiki/Florida" title="Florida">Florida</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Date apprehended</div></th><td class="infobox-data">October 15, 1997</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>John Rodney McRae</b> (November 20, 1934 – June 28, 2005) was an American murderer and suspected <a href="/wiki/Serial_killer" title="Serial killer">serial killer</a>. McRae was officially convicted of two sexually-motivated murders of young boys, one committed at age 15, but is the prime suspect in at least three more.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He never admitted his guilt, and died in prison while serving a <a href="/wiki/Life_imprisonment" title="Life imprisonment">life sentence</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Rodney_McRae&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>John Rodney McRae was born on November 20, 1934, in the small town of <a href="/wiki/Belleville,_Michigan" title="Belleville, Michigan">Belleville, Michigan</a>, to John Alexander and Josephine Smith McRae, who also had a younger daughter. In the early 1940s, the family left Michigan and moved to <a href="/wiki/Fort_Wayne,_Indiana" title="Fort Wayne, Indiana">Fort Wayne, Indiana</a>, where McRae attended a military school for some time, before they eventually returned to Michigan in 1946. There, the elder McRae found lodging in suburban <a href="/wiki/St._Clair_Shores,_Michigan" title="St. Clair Shores, Michigan">St. Clair Shores</a>, where the family earned a positive reputation for leading law-abiding, honest lives. McRae went to the <a href="/wiki/Lakeview_High_School_(St._Clair_Shores,_Michigan)" title="Lakeview High School (St. Clair Shores, Michigan)">Lakeview High School</a>, where he mainly engaged in sports and was on the <a href="/wiki/American_football" title="American football">football</a> team, but by this time, he also started to engage in small-time crime.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1948, McRae and a friend ran away from home, for which missing persons reports were filed, only to later be found in an auto repair shop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, where McRae had been working as a day laborer.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By the age of 15, he was 5'2" and weighed 90 pounds, but was unpopular in school and the neighborhood because of his aggressive and disruptive behavior towards other children and students. As a result, McRae was frequently disciplined by the school administration, and earned a reputation as a bully. </p><p>During this period, he also stole money from his parents and other people's property such as cars and boats, and even more disturbingly, he <a href="/wiki/Cruelty_to_animals" title="Cruelty to animals">dissected a dog near the family home</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McRae also began to exhibit signs of an apparent sexual disorder, as he started assaulting and sexually harassing children of both sexes who were significantly younger than him.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Murder_of_Joseph_Housey">Murder of Joseph Housey</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Rodney_McRae&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Murder of Joseph Housey"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In early September 1950, 8-year-old Joseph "Joey" Housey Jr. went missing from St. Clair Shores.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A search operation was organized by police and local residents, who found the boy's mutilated body in a <a href="/wiki/Lovers%27_lane" title="Lovers' lane">lovers' lane</a> only two blocks away from his house on September 23.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Housey's <a href="/wiki/Jugular_vein" title="Jugular vein">jugular vein</a> and <a href="/wiki/External_carotid_artery" title="External carotid artery">carotid artery</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Blood_vessel" title="Blood vessel">blood vessels</a> on both wrists, had been slashed with a dull <a href="/wiki/Kitchen_knife" title="Kitchen knife">paring knife</a>, after which he had been hit on the head several times with a rock.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The body had then been buried in a shallow grave with a small concrete slab, which had been washed away by rain over the following days, allowing the grave to be located.<sup id="cite_ref-:2_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:2-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A forensic autopsy concluded that Housey had been sexually abused.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McRae lived near the Houseys and was among the volunteers who assisted the police in the search.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like most local teenagers, he was interrogated by the officers as part of procedure, but quickly became a suspect after he alleged that he "accidentally" discovered the location of a beam headlight Housey had been playing with the day he disappeared.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McRae was unable to provide an alibi as to his whereabouts on the day of the disappearance, after which law enforcement officers showed up at his home with an offer that he undergo a <a href="/wiki/Polygraph" title="Polygraph">polygraph test</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, McRae had fled the day before, leaving behind a note addressed to his mother which read "<i>"I want you</i> <i>to know I hart nothing to do with the Housey boy. I love you and I've caused you too much trouble."</i><sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During a search of the house, the officers found a razor stained with dried blood amongst McRae's belongings, which was seized for forensic examination. He was considered missing for a few days before being located in the <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canadian</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Sarnia" title="Sarnia">Sarnia</a>, where his uncle resided.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McRae was returned to St. Clair Shores' police station, where he confessed to killing Housey during interrogations on October 1, 1950.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, he refused to admit to raping the victim and was unwilling to explain his motive for the murder, claiming that it had occurred to him in a dream.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McRae also stated that shortly before he escaped, he had confessed the killing to his mother and father, who later confirmed this claim.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His father later told the policemen that after his son had informed him of the deed, he said the following to him: <i>"If you did do it, you better go out to the lake and start swimming. Its better that way. Remember son, I'm only asking you to swim if you are guilty."</i><sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to McRae's father's testimony, after a brief conversation with his son, he shook his hand, asked him to write a letter after his arrival in Canada, and walked him to the coast.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McRae later testified that he managed to swim some distance from shore, but was soon forced to turn back due to fatigue, after which he stole a neighbor's motorboat and fled to Sarnia.<sup id="cite_ref-:3_4-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:3-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the months that followed, McRae recanted his testimony and declared himself insane.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the request of his attorney, a psychiatric exam was conducted in late October of that year, which found him to be completely sane and aware of his actions.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On February 21, 1951, by a jury verdict, McRae was found guilty of killing Joseph Housey, and on February 29, the court imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without parole.<sup id="cite_ref-:4_5-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:4-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his sentencing, McRae remained calm and showed little to no emotion, and later refused to say anything to the court when the judge asked him.<sup id="cite_ref-:5_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later on, when reporters asked him for comments, he simply said: "I'm disgusted, that's all."<sup id="cite_ref-:5_7-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:5-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commutation,_release_and_suspected_murders"><span id="Commutation.2C_release_and_suspected_murders"></span>Commutation, release and suspected murders</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Rodney_McRae&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Commutation, release and suspected murders"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Following his conviction, McRae was transferred to the <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Reformatory" title="Michigan Reformatory">Michigan Reformatory</a> in <a href="/wiki/Ionia,_Michigan" title="Ionia, Michigan">Ionia</a>, where he learned the trade of an auto mechanic and underwent several sex offender rehabilitation programs.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his incarceration, he never exhibited violent tendencies, was never disciplined and was considered a model prisoner.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1971, after a series of decisions by the <a href="/wiki/Supreme_Court_of_the_United_States" title="Supreme Court of the United States">Supreme Court</a> questioned the imposition of the <a href="/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment">death penalty</a> and life without parole on juvenile offenders, Governor <a href="/wiki/William_Milliken" title="William Milliken">William Milliken</a> commuted McRae's sentence to life imprisonment with a chance of parole by executive order.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McRae was paroled from prison on February 2, 1972, after spending 21 years behind bars. He then Moved to Crystal Michigan with his mother where, with the support of his mother , he soon found housing and work. In 1973, he married Barbara Ann Heckman, who gave birth to his son Martin in 1974.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The following year, McRae was finally allowed to leave Michigan, moving to <a href="/wiki/Brevard_County,_Florida" title="Brevard County, Florida">Brevard County, Florida</a>, to work as a guard at a juvenile detention facility.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One theory purports that McRae provided fake documents that concealed his criminal record upon entering the institution.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>For the remainder of his stay in Florida, McRae came under police suspicion several times in connection with the disappearances of local children. On April 28, 1977, 13-year-old Keith Fleming vanished from <a href="/wiki/Cocoa_Beach,_Florida" title="Cocoa Beach, Florida">Cocoa Beach</a> after last being seen on the highway near a beach, just a few hundred yards from McRae's house.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While McRae was questioned regarding the case, he was never arrested as no direct evidence indicated his responsibility. Fleming's body was never found.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two years later, McRae came under police scrutiny again after 12-year-old Kipling Randolph Hess III disappeared. Hess was last seen alive on March 27, 1979, walking on his way to school in the <a href="/wiki/Merritt_Island,_Florida" title="Merritt Island, Florida">Merritt Island</a> area.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, he never showed up to class that day, and was declared missing. Upon leaving home, the boy left a note addressed to his parents that read "<i>Goodbye, Mom and Dad</i>." During the investigation, McRae became the main and only suspect in his disappearance, as it was determined that he and his son Martin had met Hess at a Catholic church carnival a few days prior to his disappearance.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As in the Housey case, McRae joined the volunteer searches and assisted police in the search right up to the time he became a suspect.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After the search ended, McRae was questioned while his apartment and the interior of his car were searched. Despite this, no evidence implicating him in Hess' disappearance was uncovered, and Hess remains missing. His body has never been found.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 12, 1979, there was an escape from the Brevard Correctional Institution in <a href="/wiki/Sharpes,_Florida" title="Sharpes, Florida">Sharpes</a>, where McRae worked.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was orchestrated by a 20-year-old inmate named Charles Edward Collingwood, who was serving a 4-year sentence for stealing an automobile, but due to his immaculate prison record, he was put in the minimum security section. On the afternoon of December 12, Collingwood was doing landscaping work outside the facility with minimal security personnel, using his chance to escape. Circumstantial evidence established that McRae might have been involved in the escape. A number of informants told the prison authorities that McRae had been sexually harassing Collingwood for several months, after which Collingwood started <a href="/wiki/Blackmail" title="Blackmail">blackmailing</a> and threatening to expose him.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> McRae denied having any inappropriate relations with the prisoner since, according to his testimony, Collingwood himself had been an informant and had given him information about other prisoners' activities.<sup id="cite_ref-:6_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:6-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Collingwood was never found.<sup id="cite_ref-:9_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The investigators suspected that Collingwood was murdered by McRae once he was outside, but ultimately, no charges were filed against him due to lack of evidence. </p><p>In 1980, McRae was forced to resign from his job, after which he left Florida and returned to Michigan, settling in <a href="/wiki/Clare_County,_Michigan" title="Clare County, Michigan">Clare County</a>, where he purchased a trailer and set it up on a leased piece of land. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Murder_of_Randy_Laufer_and_capture">Murder of Randy Laufer and capture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Rodney_McRae&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Murder of Randy Laufer and capture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1987, McRae came under police attention again, in the disappearance of 15-year-old Randy Laufer on September 15.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The teenager was a close friend of McRae's son and had even visited his trailer a few times. McRae was questioned, but at the time, no evidence implicating him was found. Months after Laufer vanished, McRae and his family left Michigan and moved to <a href="/wiki/Mesa,_Arizona" title="Mesa, Arizona">Mesa, Arizona</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 1997, Clinton Goodenow, a hired hand who was digging a hole to get rid of junk on McRae's property, found the skeletal remains of what appeared to be a young boy.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_13-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The skeleton was sent to the county coroner, who soon identified it as belonging to Randy Laufer. Based on the chipped bones on the spine, neck and <a href="/wiki/Pelvis" title="Pelvis">pelvis</a>, the examiner stated that the victim had been tortured before his death and had been repeatedly stabbed with a knife in various places.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_13-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Using the bones as evidence, the 63-year-old McRae and his son were arrested in Mesa on October 15. Martin was subsequently released.<sup id="cite_ref-:10_13-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trial_and_imprisonment">Trial and imprisonment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Rodney_McRae&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Trial and imprisonment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McRae's trial began in September 1998. Since there was no forensic evidence to incriminate him in Laufer's murder, prosecutors used evidence from the Housey trial, arguing that both cases showed a similar <a href="/wiki/Modus_operandi" title="Modus operandi">modus operandi</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In both cases, McRae was the last person seen with the victim and was involved in the searches, while both victims had numerous cuts on their bodies and were found buried near McRae's home.<sup id="cite_ref-:7_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:7-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>McRae was convicted of killing Laufer in December 1998, and was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole.<sup id="cite_ref-:11_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His attorneys appealed the decision on the grounds that McRae had been provided <a href="/wiki/Ineffective_assistance_of_counsel" title="Ineffective assistance of counsel">ineffective assistance counsel</a>, which the court granted.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:11_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:11-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the meantime, Martin McRae was convicted for molesting his daughter in <a href="/wiki/Nevada" title="Nevada">Nevada</a>, for which he was given a 10-years-to-life sentence.<sup id="cite_ref-:8_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:8-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004, McRae's conviction was overturned and he was given a new trial, which began on May 3, 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Again, he was found guilty, and was re-sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Rodney_McRae&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the early 2000s, McRae began having health problems, eventually being diagnosed with a <a href="/wiki/Peptic_ulcer_disease" title="Peptic ulcer disease">stomach ulcer</a>. On June 28, 2005, just thirteen days after the conclusion of his retrial, he died from complications relating to his ailment at the Southern Michigan Correctional Facility in <a href="/wiki/Jackson,_Michigan" title="Jackson, Michigan">Jackson</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Rodney_McRae&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_homicides_in_Michigan" title="List of homicides in Michigan">List of homicides in Michigan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_youngest_killers" title="List of youngest killers">List of youngest killers</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading 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