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Home > Blogs > Dayton Courts: Legal and crime news > Archives > 2009 > January > 07 > Entry
Hearing today for Columbus man charged in Jenny Nelson slaying
COLUMBUS — The man charged with 18 felony counts in the slaying of Jenny Nelson and the kidnapping of her 4-year-old son, will appear in Franklin County Common Pleas Court today.
Charlie Myers, 22, of 70 McMillan Ave., will appear at 1:30 p.m. for his Rule 4 hearing. The hearing must be held before Myers can be moved to Montgomery County, where he is charged, according to Greg Flannagan, spokesman for the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.
It is not clear when Myers would be moved, Flannagan said.
Myers is charged with eight felony counts of aggravated murder, four counts of kidnapping and two counts of aggravated robbery.
Investigators said Myers, armed with a shotgun and sexual devices, drove from Columbus on Friday in the Nelson family’s 1999 Honda Accord, stolen from an Ohio State University parking lot on Dec. 17. His intention was to have sexual contact with Nelson’s son, according to Sheriff Phil Plummer.
Myers kicked in the door, then tied up Jenny Nelson. She broke free of her restraints, grabbed a knife and stabbed Myers in the back. Myers then shot her twice in the abdomen. He fled in an Oldsmobile Alero owned by a Nelson relative, taking the boy with him. He left the boy at a rest stop near the Madison and Clark county line.
WSYX-TV Channel 6, Columbus, reported that Sky Cunningham of Columbus thinks Myers once targeted her. Cunningham’s car was stolen last year, as was her purse from the DJ booth where she was working at a bar.
Cunningham said the next day a man matching the description of Myers went to her house, but he was scared away when a male roommate answered the door.
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