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December 7, 2006

Collin County Criminal District Attorney announces indictments in cold case murder

(McKinney, TX) -- Collin County Criminal District Attorney John Roach announced today indictments against a North Texas man and an Austin woman for the 16-year-old, execution-style murder of David Grubstein in Wylie.

Ronnie Jene Shy II of Point, Texas, and Cinnamon Nemec, of Austin, both 35, were indicted this week for the August, 20, 1990 killing after the District Attorney’s Cold Case Unit and the Wylie Police Department jointly re-opened and investigated the case. Shy was indicted on a capital murder charge. Nemec was indicted on a murder charge.

“The Wylie Police Department and Sgt. T.J. Walters, its lead investigator on the case, doggedly pursued this investigation,” Mr. Roach said. “We are pleased to have played a part.”

In August 1990, Grubstein was reported missing and was later found by the Wylie Police Department with a shotgun wound to the head on the east side of the city near Lake Lavon. Shy was arrested early Wednesday after an indictment by a Collin County grand jury was returned Tuesday. Nemec turned herself into Collin County authorities Thursday morning.

“This marks the ninth murder case – and the 10th and 11th defendants charged with murder or capital murder – as a result of cold case investigations by the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, or in conjunction with other agencies since 2003,” says Mr. Roach. Collin County prosecutors obtained nine convictions for eight of those murders, all of which occurred before 1990.

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