Kemp Approves Extradition for Murder Suspect Wanted in Georgia and Arkansas

WUGA | By Jeff Dantre

Published March 25, 2025 at 11:54 AM EDT

Michael Thomas Dusch of North Carolina has been charged with the murder of 69-year-old David J. Stewart

Gov. Brian Kemp recently signed a warrant that should lead to the extradition of a suspect charged in the murder of an Oglethorpe County man in February. Michael Thomas Dusch is charged with murdering 69-year-old David J. Stewart, whose body was found on Feb. 25 in an area near his home on Double Bridges Road, a road that runs along the borders of Oglethorpe and Clarke counties. Dusch is also under investigation by the Arkansas State Police for the slaying of an elderly man in the community of Delaware in Logan County, Arkansas.

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Jeff has delivered morning news at WUGA Radio for more than a decade. He was among a team at CNN that won a George Foster Peabody Award in 1991 for an educational product based on the fall of the Soviet Union. He also won an Edward R. Murrow Award from Radio Television Digital News Association in 2007 for producing a series for WSB Radio on financial scams. Jeff is a graduate of the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest University (MBA) and holds a BS in Business Administration from Campbell University, both in North Carolina.

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