USA - Tennessee. A jury again sentenced Michael Rimmer to death

A Shelby County jury again sentenced Michael Rimmer, 50, White, to death. It is the third time the man is sentenced to death in the February 8, 1997 killing of his former girlfriend, 45-year-old Ricci Ellsworth. Rimmer was convicted and sentenced to death in 1998, but a state appeals court awarded him a new trial after ruling the jury’s verdict form was improper and ambiguous. he was sentenced to death for the second time on Jan. 13, 2004 (see). A new trial was ordered on October 12, 2012 (see) after a judge found Rimmer's defense counsel failed to effectively investigate the capital case. Ellsworth disappeared Feb. 8, 1997 from the Memphis Inn near Interstate 40. Her blood and her ring were found at the scene, but her body has never been found.