A jury on Thursday found Charles Cook not guilty on charges related to the death of Myrtle McGill in 1991.
Cook was charged with Criminal Homicide and Robbery in connection with the death investigation that started in December of 1991 after McGill was discovered dead in her home in White Township. He was accused of shooting McGill, then stealing her car and later abandoning it near the Greyhound bus station in Pittsburgh.
In 2007, investigators were able to link Cook to the car thanks to a cigarette butt found in the initial investigation. Cook was arrested in 2016 in Minnesota where he was found living as a transient and was extradited back to Indiana County in 2017. The case was prosecuted by the State Attorney General’s office.
Cook is expected back in Indiana County Court on October 19th for another jury trial where he faces seven counts of Criminal Use of a Communications Facility committed in 2018 while he was in Indiana County Jail.
