Jacksonville police have ‘renewed hope’ in solving 2011 cold case double murder

A double murder, still unsolved more than 12 years later.

Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office detectives told Action News Jax Thursday the trail went cold after multiple suspects broke into the westside home of John Ragin, shooting and killing him and his brother Eric Stubbs. It all happened on Bristol Bay Court on June 29, 2011.

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“We definitely feel like the suspects and the victims know each other, based simply on the fact that there’s no force entered into the residence, which told investigators that they allowed them to come into the residence,” JSO Homicide Detective Travis Oliver said.

However, almost 13 years later, Oliver told Action News Jax police have “renewed hope” in finding those responsible.

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“The detectives look at it on today’s technologies versus 2011 technology. And that’s how we’re able to move forward and a lot of the cases,” Oliver said. “We have people that we feel that we need to really focus our attention on and then modern technology is helping us to direct our attention onto those people.”

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