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A Bossier City man is headed to trial next summer for the murder of a Baton Rouge businessman.

A Baton Rouge udge set a July 13 trial date for 66-year-old Ronald Dunnagan of Bossier City who is accused in the 1984 slaying of 34-year-old  Gary Kergan, who was last seen alive at a north Baton Rouge apartment shared by his accused killers.

Dunnagan is charged with second-degree murder in the death of Kergan whose body has never been found. He faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison if convicted as charged.

Ted Kergan, brother of the victim, tells The Advocate

“Oh, I’m relieved. I really am. To see Dunnagan have a trial date is a real weight off my shoulders,” Ted Kergan said outside state District Judge Mike Erwin’s courtroom after the judge set the case for trial.

“We’re not there yet. We have to let the justice system work the way it’s designed to work,” he added. “But I do see light at the end of the tunnel.”

Gary Kergan’s abandoned car, with a significant amount of blood in the trunk, was discovered in Metairie several days after his November 1984 disappearance. He was declared legally dead by the courts in 1986. DNA testing in 2012 revealed the blood belonged to Gary Kergan.


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