A Columbus judge delivered the sentence Tuesday for a man found guilty of felony murder, aggravated assault and rape in the 2015 death of a woman found in an Alabama creek.
Stacey Gray, 55, was found guilty on Dec. 1, 2025, in the death of 25-year-old Renee Eldridge, whose body was found July 7, 2015, in Osanippa Creek in Chambers County, Alabama.
Superior Court Judge Carolyn “Tippi” Cain Burch sentenced Gray to life without parole on the felony murder charge and a consecutive life sentence on the rape charge, Chattahoochee Judicial Circuit District Attorney Don Kelly told the Ledger-Enquirer…