Accused Double Killer Back in Van Zandt County

CANTON (Staff/AP)) – A man suspected in the slayings of two Ben Wheeler residents is back in East Texas. Authorities brought Donny Lee Greenhow to the Van Zandt County Justice Center Thursday afternoon after he was found last week and arrested in Tennessee. Ripley, Tenn., police Lt. Lynn Gould says officers with several West Tennessee law enforcement agencies were looking for Greenhow in Lauderdale County August 9. Greenhow was arrested in Ripley, according to the Lauderdale County Sheriff’s Department.

Gould says Greenhow was identified after leaving his driver’s license at a gas station in Ripley on the morning of August 9. An officer ran his license and found that Greenhow was wanted in connection with the Ben Wheeler killings. A capital murder warrant for Greenhow was issued after the bodies of Peter Shick, 74, and his wife, Latricia, 55, were found in their mobile home the week before his arrest. Officers found Greenhow’s pickup truck abandoned near a fish camp.