The Bowling Green Daily News has reported that William Robert “Bobby” Rigdon has been found guilty of murder.
A Warren County jury sentenced Rigdon to 38 years in prison for the murder of Wendell Gleason Pyles, 50, of Columbia. The 30-year-old was convicted of shooting and killing Pyles at his workplace, the Tarter Gate Co. in Casey County, on Sept. 26, 2012.
The jury deliberated for two and a half hours before the verdict, following a seven-day trial.
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There was a theory, by prosecutors Shawna Virgin Kincer and Jeffery Prather, that Rigdon, a member of the Frankfort chapter of the Iron Horsemen Motorcycle Club, had shot Plyes, a former member, because of an order to do so from the Iron Horsemen chapter president David Salyers, to show his commitment to the club.
There were witnesses who testified that Salyers advanced Pyles money to buy a motorcycle and Pyles never repaid him.
Pyles was found near his truck at his worksite. He had been shot three times, with one shot in the back of his head. Detectives found a cigarette butt on the ground near Pyles’ truck, with Rigdon’s DNA.
There was also surveillance footage from Crockett Trail General Store, in Liberty, showing Rigdon and Salyers paying for items inside the store, within an hour of the 911 call that brought police to Pyles’ workplace.
