Summary of Offense:
On September 8, 1991, Mary Shearin left her home, driving a 1986 Cadillac. Later that day, two men found a body lying face down on the side of a road. Police officers discovered that the hands were bound behind the back and the victim had been shot once in the back of the head. Police later determined the body to be that of Mary Shearin. On September 9, 1991, police found Shearin’s vehicle being driven by two men, who identified themselves as Ezell Foster and Ansell Rose. After the car was impounded, police found the .25 caliber pistol that fired the bullet recovered from Shearin’s body and a piece of rope that matched the rope used to bind Shearin’s hands. Upon further police investigation, it was determined that Ezell Foster was an alias for Alfred Fennie and Ansell Rose was an alias for Michael Frazier. Additionally, police determined that money had been taken from Shearin’s account with her ATM card. Fennie and Frazier each implicated the other as the person responsible for the kidnapping and murder of Shearin.
Fennie was sentenced to death in Hernando County on December 1, 1992.
Co-defendant information:
Michael Frazier was also charged with first-degree murder, armed kidnapping, and armed robbery. He was sentenced to life imprisonment due to an agreement with the State to provide information in exchange for the State agreeing not to seek the death
penalty.
Also plead guilty to the murder of Jamie Christine Duncan after DNA was linked to him in 2015.
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