Shubert Trial Set for the Fall

The capital murder trial of Brent Shubert will take place this fall.

An exact date has not yet been released, but on Tuesday, Northern Judicial Circuit District Attorney Parks White confirmed to WLHR News it is scheduled for the fall.

White said a procedural hearing will take place in July, which he said was requested by Shubert’s defense team.

White is seeking the death penalty in the case that drew wide attention in early 2013 when the body of Shubert’s fiancé was found down an abandoned well near the couple’s home in Canon.

Bonnie Ann Cooner went missing in late January 2013 from the home she and her 12-year old son shared with Shubert on Unawatti Road in Canon.

An intensive search was launched to find Cooner that involved Franklin County Sheriff’s investigators, the GBI as well as friends and relatives.

At one point, Shubert told CBS Atlanta that Cooner had been moody and acting strangely just before she disappeared.
Cooner’s body was found two weeks later in early February, 2013.

Shubert was arrested several hours later in Anderson, SC after Anderson Police found his van in a restaurant parking lot and returned to Franklin County.

In March of 2013, a Franklin County Grand Jury indicted Shubert on one count of malice murder, one count of felony murder and one count of concealing the death of another.

Since then, he has been held without bond in the Franklin County Detention Center.