<p>A drug offender charged with murder in the execution-style slayings of a snitch and four others in his household, including a 3-year-old boy, could face the death penalty if convicted.</p><p>A Colquitt County grand jury returned a 25-count indictment last week against Jerry Johnny Thompson, 45, of Nashville, Ga. The indictment was released Tuesday.</p><p>Thompson, also known as "Cubano," and Wilma Ann Yvonne Stover, 20, were charged in August in the 2004 murders of Jaime Cruz Resendez, 25; his wife, Katrina "Tina" Darlene Resendez, 29; the couple's son, Juan Carlos Resendez, 3; Katrina's mother, Betty Watts, 50, of Norman Park; and family friend and housekeeper, Liliana Alegria Aguilar, 30.</p><p>Children returning home from school discovered some of the bodies in the Resendez home and alerted the sheriff's department. Investigators found the other victims, including the boy's body hidden in a bedroom.</p><p>Jaime and Katrina Resendez had been arrested in nearby Berrien County in 2003 after drug agents found 138 pounds of marijuana in their mobile home. The couple began cooperating with authorities, giving information that led to the arrests of several drug dealers in Texas.</p><p>According to news reports, the Resendez couple had lived in fear, moving three times in a year and telling neighbors they were trying to escape their past.</p><p>Five counts of the indictment against Thompson have the required aggravating circumstances to qualify as capital crimes, but prosecutors have not indicated whether they will seek a death sentence.</p><p>Assistant District Attorney David Miller of Valdosta declined to comment on the case citing an ongoing investigation.</p><p>He did not return a call from the Associated Press on Wednesday.</p><p>The grand jury considered only the charges against Thompson, not Stover.</p><p>Georgia Bureau of Investigation agents have said Jaime Resendez was involved in a marijuana trafficking ring that stretched from Texas to Moultrie. The drug link resulted in federal indictments in April 2005 of Thompson, Stover and four other associates of Resendez for trafficking more than 1,000 pounds of marijuana with a street value of $1 million.</p><p>Thompson is serving a 27-year sentence, without the possibility of parole, on federal charges of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute marijuana.</p><p>In a letter to The Moultrie Observer newspaper, Thompson admitting his involvement in trafficking "175 pounds of weed" but denied killing anyone.</p><p>"Jaime was a major drug cartel member who snitched on his bosses in Mexico, and he was stealing money from these treacherous people and I didn't know all of this at the time," Thompson wrote. "... I didn't do it, and the real murderer is still free."</p>
