Convicted killer who was serving life sentence dies

<p>A man who had been serving a life sentence in Georgia after going on a crime spree with his wife in the early 1980s that left two people dead has died.</p><p>Alvin Neelley died Friday at Oconee Regional Medical Center, said Peggy Chapman, a spokeswoman for the Georgia Department of Corrections. He was 52.</p><p>Neelley was being held at Bostick State Prison in Hardwick, Chapman said. She said she could not give any other details on the death.</p><p>But Kathy Bauguess, the ex-sister-in-law to Neelley's wife, Judith Ann Neelley, said Judith Ann Neelley told her he died during surgery.</p><p>Judith Ann Neelley had been sentenced to death in Alabama for the murder of 13-year-old Lisa Ann Millican, who was abducted from Rome in 1982. Her body was recovered a few days later near Fort Payne, Ala.</p><p>But Neelley was saved from the electric chair when former Alabama Gov. Fob James commuted her death sentence several days before he left office in 1999. She remains imprisoned in Alabama.</p><p>Alvin Neelley had been serving a life sentence in Georgia for kidnapping and murdering Janice Kay Chatman, 22.</p><p>Judith Ann Neelley's family has blamed her husband for the crimes they committed, saying she was under the control of an abusive man she met and married at 15.</p><p>Bill Adams, Judith Ann Neelley's younger brother, expressed little sympathy for Alvin Neelley, who he said had even threatened to kill him if he ever got out of prison.</p><p>"We're not going to build a shrine for him," Adams said Sunday.</p><p>But Bauguess, who said she has talked to Judith Ann Neelley about the death, said his wife felt sad.</p><p>"They were married to each other, so there's a little sadness there," Bauguess said.</p>