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Rampage of a Nutty Professor

By David Lohr

Former University of Georgia marketing professor George Zinkhan, 57, was apparently in the midst of gathering information about his attorney wife, Marie Bruce, 47, who, it seems, was seeing economist Thomas Tanner, 40, and planning to divorce Zinkhan when Zinkhan went off the deep end on Saturday, April 25, 2009 and shot both of them to death, along with another person, Ben Teague, 63, outside Athens Community Theater.  Teague's involvement, it seemed, was simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Zinkhan, Bruce, and Tanner were members of a local theater group, the Town and Gown Players, and were attending a reunion at the theater when Zinkhan and his wife became embroiled in an argument.  Zinkhan, in a fit of anger despite having attended marital counseling sessions with his wife, returned to his red Jeep Liberty, where their two children, ages 8 and 10, were waiting for him, and retrieved two handguns...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).