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Les Rash Jr. (25) was shot to death, robbed, transported across state lines, and then set on fire
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Shot
Published: Apr 01, 2008 @ 11:41 PM
Les Rash (25)
Date:
Nov 22, 2005
Cause of Death:
Shot
Location:
Killeen, Texas
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Jason Robert Dowling and Roy Andrew Lewis, 30, of Harker Heights, are accused of taking part in the killing, and the subsequent cover-up, of a 25-year-old Eddy man, Les Rash Jr. and robbing him of more than $18,000 in cashier''s checks.
"Lewis admitted to being the one who shot the victim in the head with a .22 rifle," First Assistant District Attorney Murff Bledsoe said when the men were indicted last January.
Court documents revealed that Rash had received a substantial amount of cash as the result of an insurance trust. The defendants had led the Eddy man to believe they were starting a business and were having Rash invest his money to buy equipment.
Lewis stated in the affidavit that the plan to kill Rash was twofold: keep control of Rash''s money and prevent Rash from reporting the scheme to authorities. The plan was for Lewis to hold Rash at gunpoint while taking the money in the form of cashier''s checks.
Bledsoe said $60,000 was in Rash''s insurance trust. Court documents state that Rash''s bank account showed about $18,000 in unaccounted for funds.
Lewis told police Dowling received $18,000 for his part in the killing. Dowling''s father said his son came to his house on Nov. 10, 2005, with more than $14,000 in large bills.
After Rash was killed, "they transported the body to Illinois and burned it," Bledsoe said. "Lewis had a brother who owned or leased some rural property in Illinois."
Investigators in Williamson County, Ill., recovered Rash''s remains.
A capital murder conviction carries a life sentence or the death penalty.
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