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Corrections officer trainee arrested in 2007 murder

32-year-old Jack Bates Rider III was arrested Tuesday night while leaving a training class to become a corrections officer

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PENSACOLA — A Panhandle man training to become a corrections officer has been arrested in the 2007 murder of an Arizona woman.

The U.S. Marshals Service says 32-year-old Jack Bates Rider III was arrested Tuesday night while leaving a training class to become a corrections officer.

Rider is in the Escambia County Jail on a warrant of being a fugitive from justice. He faces charges in the strangulation death of Krystal Wilson in Yavapai County, Arizona.

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