Man accused of abducting, killing Shondra May denied bond

SCOTT CO., Miss. (WLBT) - Bond has been denied for the man charged in the abduction and death of Shondra May in Scott County.

Rubin Weeks, 63, is charged with capital murder, rape, kidnapping, impersonating a law-enforcement officer, and directing a minor to commit a felony.

He was taken into custody on April 29 at an RV park where he was living in Madison County near Canton.

[READ: Arrest made in Shondra May cold case]

Weeks is accused of abducting May, 17, in February of 1986, while she was on her way home from work in Forest.    

Her body was found three weeks later in a creek in Hinds County.    

Weeks is the first person to be charged in the case after investigators found witnesses who are now willing to testify against him.

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