Final sentencing ends ‘case of betrayal and lies’ where cheating ex-sheriff’s investigator and co-conspirators murdered his wife

David Lee Morse, Collin Joshua Russell, Tanna Shelton Fitzgerald, and Casey Lynn Rogers (left to right) were charged with murdering Morse

David Lee Morse, Collin Joshua Russell, Tanna Shelton Fitzgerald, and Casey Lynn Rogers (left to right) were charged with murdering Morse’s wife, Pamela S. Morse. Fitzgerald died of an overdose before trial, but the others were convicted. (Screenshot: WDBJ)

The final defendant has been sentenced for helping a retired sheriff’s investigator murder his wife in cold blood.

Casey Lynn Rogers, 30, is set to serve 60 years in a Virginia prison, with the rest of her 108-year term suspended, Henry County Assistant Commonwealth Attorney Jessica Henson told Law&Crime on Thursday.

That’s more than the 30 years active prison sentence (with 30 years suspended) that the lead defendant, former Henry County sheriff’s investigator David Lee Morse, is serving and more than the 55-year active term (with 35 years suspended) served by Rogers’ boyfriend, Collin Joshua Russell, 40. The fourth defendant, Morse’s mistress, Tanna Shelton Fitzgerald, was 54 when she overdosed on a prescription at the Henry County Jail and died at the hospital.

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