FORSYTH, Mo. A convicted credit union robber serving a 14-year-prsion sentence this week was charged with an unsolved murder that occurred 10 years ago.
Phillip Dodd, 40, in prison for a 2009 armed robbery at Joplin Metro CU, was charged with killing Becky Sutton on March 21, 2003. Sutton, 19, disappeared from her home in Hollister, leaving behind her 2-year-old son, Cole. It was the son who alerted a neighbor that his mother was gone when he was found wandering around the courtyard in their apartment complex.
Sutton’s remains turned up months later in the Mark Twain National Forest, about 35 miles from Hollister. Until now, no one had been charged for her murder.
Dodd originally was charged in 2009 with first-degree robbery but prosecutors accepted a plea agreement for second-degree robbery because Dodd never displayed a weapon.
