Trucker Garry Artman charged in pair of grisly cold-case murders

A Florida trucker was charged with the 2006 cold-case homicide of a 24-year-old girl in Maryland weeks after he was arrested for the 1996 killing of a 29-year-old girl in Michigan, authorities introduced.

Garry Artman, 64, of White Springs, Florida, was linked to each slayings by DNA proof. 

The physique of Dusty Myriah Shuck, 24, was discovered Could 4, 2006, dumped on the shoulder of the I-70 freeway in Frederick County, Maryland. She had been stabbed to demise.

She had no footwear or figuring out info on her — however a pair of dragon tattoos on her again beneath the phrase “Gypsy Rose” helped authorities establish her. 

Shuck was final seen April 24 in her dwelling state of New Mexico at an area lodge. 

Garry Artman, 64, was linked to each slayings by DNA proof.

Maryland Police Division

Investigators suspected the killer could be a truck driver after she was found so removed from dwelling — however they have been unable to show up any stable leads. 

The Mixed DNA Index System matched a pattern from the 1996 cold-case killing of mom of two Sharon Hammack in Michigan to the 2006 homicide — however police didn’t have a suspect.

A break got here this yr when developments in DNA testing led the Kent County Sheriff’s Workplace in Michigan to attach Artman to the 1996 demise of Hammack. 

Mom of two Sharon Hammack was murdered however a suspect was by no means discovered.

Kent County Sheriff's Workplace

Hammack, who was pregnant, was present in a ditch sure, strangled and stabbed within the head Oct. 3 in Caledonia Township. She had additionally been sexually assaulted. 

Artman was hit with homicide, first-degree prison sexual conduct and different prices in her grotesque killing.

The workplace contacted Maryland State Police investigators and equipped them with a DNA swab from Artman, which matched the pattern taken from the physique of Shuck in 2006.

The Kent County Sheriff’s Workplace executed a search warrant Aug. 31 on a storage unit in Florida that belongs to Artman.

Authorities discovered a number of items of girls’s underwear, that are being examined for DNA to see in the event that they match different victims, officers stated.

Artman is charged with homicide and assault in Shuck’s demise. 

He's being held at Kent County Correctional Facility in Grand Rapids, Michigan.