Trail Leads to Florida in Massachusetts Murder Investigation

(WARREN, Mass.) -- The ongoing investigation into the disappearance and murder of a Warren, Mass., lifeguard over a decade ago has brought Massachusetts state police to Summerfield, Fla.

Massachusetts state police are working with detectives in the Marion County sheriff's office to search the trailer of convicted murderer Rodney Stanger, 64, for evidence that may link Stanger to Molly Bish's murder.

Bish was 16 when she was abducted near a local pond, where she worked as a lifeguard in June 2000. Her remains were found three years later near her family's home.

Stanger, who is currently in jail for the 2008 murder of his girlfriend, Chrystal Morrison, had been a person of interest in Bish's case, said Detective Rhonda Stroup of Marion County. Stroup said she was contacted immediately by the Massachusetts state police following Stanger's arrest.

"We executed a search warrant for a safety deposit box, and a search warrant on his home yesterday," Stroup said on Thursday, of the investigation with Massachusetts state police. "We've been working together all this time."

Tom Shamshak, who is the private investigator for the Bish family, said state police were prompted to go down to Florida after Bonnie Kiernan, Morrison's sister, went to retrieve her sister's belongings from the trailer where Morrison and Stanger lived in June and found items that seemed suspicious.

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