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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Left to right: Frank Kennedy and Anthony Mistretta (St. Mary’s Police Department). Two Georgia men will spend the rest of their lives behind bars for the horrific murder of a homeless man found beaten, hog-tied, and anchored to the bottom of a lake, authorities announced this week. In July 2023, John Andrew Mamph was all [&#8230;]</p>
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<p>Two <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/tag/georgia/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Georgia</a> men will spend the rest of their lives behind bars for the horrific <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/tag/murder/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">murder</a> of a homeless man found beaten, hog-tied, and anchored to the bottom of a lake, authorities announced this week.</p>
<p>In July 2023, John Andrew Mamph was all of 29 years old and living at an encampment in St. Mary’s — a small town located just north of the border with Florida — when he was attacked in a remote area known to locals as “Gilligan’s Island.”</p>
<p>During the attack, a large group of at least three and as many as four people took part in the beating, Peach State authorities allege.</p>
<p>“The defendants then transported Mamph to a nearby boat ramp where they put him in a boat and took him out on a lake,” the Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney said in a <a href="https://brunswickda.org/gilligans-island-murder-case-decided-with-multiple-guilty-verdicts/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>. “While Mamph was still tied up, the defendants then weighed him down with multiple weights and dumped him into the lake so he would drown.”</p>
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<p>Earlier this month, Frank Kennedy, 56, and Anthony Mistretta, 29, were convicted by a jury over their roles in Mamph’s murder.</p>
<p>In sum, the defendants were each convicted of one count of malice murder, felony murder, false imprisonment, kidnapping, and battery over the brutal slaying. Kennedy was also convicted of aggravated assault.</p>
<p>The pair were immediately <a href="https://lawandcrime.com/tag/sentenced/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> after being convicted.</p>
<p>Mamph’s body was found sometime after noon the day following his murder by a local citizen who was jet-skiing with his family.</p>
<p>“The citizen observed the submerged body of Mr. Mamph in the clear water, returned to shore, and called 911,” prosecutors said.</p>
<p>The find was grim.</p>
<p>In a sense, the man’s body was not hidden, but rather, paraded.</p>
<p>Mamph was found tied to a cinder block at the bottom of the lake near an “aluminum roof flashing and also a black bag full of rocks tied together,” according to a police report obtained by Jacksonville, Florida-based NBC affiliate WTLV and Orange Park, Florida-based ABC affiliate WJXX, who collectively broadcast as <a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/gilligans-island-accused-murderer-was-out-on-bond-arrested-again/77-1da72c49-bbd2-47e0-8f09-bda69d4c003e" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Coast News</a>.</p>
<p>In comments to police, the man who found the body said he could “smell death” as he approached the victim, <a href="https://www.firstcoastnews.com/article/news/crime/man-found-dead-in-gilligans-island-area-in-georgia-was-tied-down-with-ropes-cinder-block/77-a5b5661d-6a7a-48fd-bd84-659c4087b0dd" target="_blank" rel="noopener">First Coast News</a> reported.</p>
<p>That same night, a task force of local, county, and state law enforcement made their first arrests “based on eyewitness statements of the horrific crimes,” prosecutors said.</p>
<p>A total of five people were charged in relation to the murder.</p>
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<p>Before Kennedy and Mistretta went to trial, all the other defendants pleaded guilty.</p>
<p>Debra Leane Dougherty, 38, pleaded guilty to one count of felony murder and was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after serving at least 30 years.</p>
<p>Bernice Rose McGuire, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and is awaiting sentencing.</p>
<p>The least culpable of the quintet, Megan Leigh Robison, 34, initially lied to law enforcement about what she knew after the fact about Mamph’s murder; she eventually pleaded guilty to one count of making a false statement and was sentenced to five years of probation.</p>
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