Overview
- Rod Metzer pleaded guilty to 14 counts and received a 70-year sentence that includes 25 years in prison followed by 45 years on probation.
- Police found Morgan Metzer bound and injured after a masked intruder assaulted her in her Canton, Georgia home on New Year's Day 2021.
- Investigators matched a zip-tie fragment from Rod Metzer’s residence to the bindings on the victim’s wrists, linking him to the scene.
- Store footage showed him buying identical zip ties on December 30 at Lowe’s, and detectives tied the purchase to his card using the product code.
- Searches on his devices and a fake cancer letter pointed to a manipulative plan, and prosecutors said he abandoned a suspected murder-suicide plot for a staged 'rescue' as the victim recalled his altered Batman-like voice.