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CHARDON — The trial for the man accused of pulling the trigger in a murder-for-hire plot that left a Burton Township man dead got under way Monday in Geauga County Common Pleas Court.
Chad South, 46, of Moraine, is accused of shooting Daniel E. Ott to death the morning of May 26, 2006, while Ott was inside his Claridon Troy Road home with his then-girlfriend, Maryann Ricker.
Prosecutors allege that 60-year-old Joseph Rosebrook, formerly of Logan County, hired South to kill Daniel C. Ott, a convicted car thief and reputed Rosebrook associate, in retaliation for his role in convicting Rosebrook of attempted murder for hire in 2005.
But instead of killing Daniel C. Ott, who has never lived in Geauga County and would have been around 70 years old in 2006, South invaded the Geauga County home of 31-year-old Daniel E. Ott and murdered him.
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