Murder For Hire Colorado Man Who Killed Vermont Man Pleads Guilty 

Friday, the Colorado man who prosecutors say abducted and murder a man from Vermont as part of a global conspiracy to do murder-for-hire pleaded guilty in federal court to charges that could land him in prison for life.

Murder For Hire Colorado Man Who Killed Vermont Man Pleads Guilty  (PHOTO: ABC News)

Colorado Man Pleads Guilty To Murder Charges

Jerry Banks 35 years old pleaded guilty as he appeared in Vermont US District Court. A sentencing hearing for Banks will be scheduled for a later date.

Banks was charged with murder for hire that led to the January 2018 death of Gregory Davis, of Danville, Vermont, and a charge of abduction. He had initially pleaded not guilty. The Victim’s remains were discovered by the side of a snowy Vermont back road.

Prosecutors say Banks was part of a conspiracy that started when Davis had been threatening to go to the FBI to declare he’d been involved in a fraudulent oil deal with another one of the conspirators, Serhat Gumrukcu, of Los Angeles, who is also facing murder for hire charge in the case.

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The Colorado Man Has The Same Case of Gumrukcu and Berk Eratay

The cases of Gumrukcu and Berk Eratay, who face similar charges, are pending. Both have pleaded not guilty.

A fourth person, Aren Lee Ethridge, of Las Vegas, pleaded guilty in July and is currently awaiting sentencing.

Four suspects were linked in a chain by banks, who were acquainted with Ethridge, who was a friend of Eratay, who worked for Gumrukcu, through the course of more than four years after the death of Davis.

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