Convicted killer arrested in area for 41-year-old homicide

MONROE — A 67-year-old convicted killer wanted for a 41-year-old homicide was arrested Friday, July 16, at a motel where he was staying on Ohio 4.

Nolan Ray George was arrested at 4:15 p.m. at the Parkside Inn, 5853 Hamilton-Middletown Road, for killing Gwendolyn Perry, 36, of Pontiac, Mich. in 1968, according to the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.

George, convicted in two other homicides, also is a suspect in the 1980s death of a woman whose body was found in Butler County, county officials said. In that case, Tammy King was last scene in Price Hill before her body was discovered in a rural part of the county, county officials said.

Butler County sheriff’s officials have been working with Michigan authorities to apprehend George for the past 18 months, according to BCSO Sgt. Jeff Reigert.

George is being held in the Butler County Jail awaiting extradition to Michigan, Reigert said.

George had been staying in room 205 at the Parkside Inn, said Brenda Cominsky, who works at the motel and was there when sheriff’s deputies arrived to arrest George.

“I don’t see how he can go to sleep at night,” she said. “I wouldn’t be able to close my eyes with the fear that the police were around the corner.”

In the Michigan homicide, Perry had been hit several times with an object and strangled with a nylon stocking that was still wrapped around her neck when her body was found in a field in Pontiac on Dec. 7, 1968, according to The Oakland Press.

George has been charged with first-degree premeditated murder by the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, according to The Oakland Press in Michigan.

George, arrested in Ohio in May after threatening his landlord with a gun, has been convicted of killing two women, according to The Press.

In 1977, George pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for killing a 22-year-old Michigan woman who was found dead in a parked car with stockings wrapped around her neck, the newspaper reported.

He was released from prison in 1984, the newspaper reported.

In 1985, George was arrested in Mason and later sentenced to 10 years in prison for involuntary manslaughter for strangling another woman, The Press reported. George was paroled in 1992.