Murder of Jack Ohrberg

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On December 11, 1980, in Indianapolis, Indiana, 44-year-old Jack Robert Ohrberg (November 21, 1936 – December 11, 1980), an Indianapolis Police Sergeant, was shot and killed by two men while he was serving an arrest warrant on several gang members for bank robbery and murder. At the time of Sergeant Ohrberg's murder, the perpetrators, Gregory Duane Resnover (August 12, 1951 – December 8, 1994) and Tommie Joe Smith (February 6, 1954 – July 18, 1996), along with Resnover's brother Earl Resnover, were suspects sought after for two armed robberies and the August 1980 murder of 53-year-old Brink's Guard William Sieg. After their arrests, the Resnover brothers and Smith were charged with the murders of Sergeant Ohrberg and Sieg. The trio was convicted and given long prison sentences for Sieg's murder. However, only Smith and Gregory Resnover were found guilty of Sergeant Ohrberg's murder, while Earl Resnover's charges were dismissed due to lack of evidence. Gregory was sentenced to death and...

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