Black Armed Robber Serving Time Found Guilty for Cold Case Slaying of White Woman

Wood TV
May 22, 2014

lois-cox-e1400194362106
Lois Cox body was found in her car, 6 days after she went missing.

A 44-year-old man has been convicted in the cold case slaying of a western Michigan business owner.

A jury on Wednesday found Grady Shields, Jr. guilty of first-degree premeditated murder, 24 Hour News 8 confirmed.

Lois Cox, a 59-year-old industrial sales business owner in Kalamazoo, disappeared on Oct. 20, 1993. Her body was found six days later inside her vehicle about 20 miles south in Three Rivers.

At the time of his arrest in Cox’s slaying, Shields was serving 15 to 25 years in prison for an armed robbery he committed two weeks after Cox’s body was found.

Shields will be sentenced June 9 to mandatory life in prison without parole.

grady-shields
Grady Shields will be sentenced to mandatory life in prison for the killing.