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Shootout in Sumter County
From the true crime book "Murders In The Swampland" |
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Due to pre-trial publicity, the case was moved to Hernando County. Convincing a jury that Jeff McGuire did any of the shooting took some sophisticaed testimony from investigators but the prosecution won out in the end. |
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Jeff McGuire pleaded not guilty in court. His attorney, Mark Shelnutt, was confident he could save McGuire. After all, Shelnutt contended, Jeff was locked in the back of the patrol car during the shootout.
"If I hadn't tried to steal that tire, none of this would have happened," Jeff said. |
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In a plea bargin agreement, Traci Grosevenor testified against her partner in crime. She'd settle for life in prison rather than take the chance of being sentenced to Florida's Electric Chair. |
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Shootout in Sumter County
.... As sheriff's deputy Ronald Dockham sipped coffee at the local McDonald's, a couple in their early twenties and driving an older model Monte Carlo entered the quiet county where even small towns are few. Jeff was at the wheel. Traci sat on the passenger side. She had one fist full of stolen jewelry and the other holding a marijuana cigarette. She sucked on the dope and joked about a loaded revolver underneath her seat.
The two had known each other for two weeks and were heading from Sarasota, 60 miles south of Tampa, to his family's home near Atlanta, Georgia. Traci was beutiful and sexy. She was just over five-foot and slim with dark bouncy hair.......... |
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Murders In The Swampland containing 17 true crime accounts that took place in Westcentral Florida can be ordered online from Asylett Press & Fictionwise; also available in major book stores. |
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