{"id":68373,"date":"2025-11-25T00:30:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68373\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T00:30:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T00:30:14","slug":"california-financier-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-for-barnet-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/68373\/","title":{"rendered":"California financier sentenced to life in prison for Barnet murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">More information on the Gregory Davis murder case can be found at ABC22\/FOX44\u2019s previous stories on the case at the links below, and in the video at the top of the article from September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">BURLINGTON, Vt. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mychamplainvalley.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:ABC22\/FOX44;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">ABC22\/FOX44<\/a>) \u2013 A man who claimed he discovered a cure for HIV has been sentenced to life in prison for paying for the murder of Gregory Davis in Barnet, Vermont in 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mychamplainvalley.com\/news\/local-news\/vermont\/feds-murder-of-danville-man-linked-to-oil-deal\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Feds: Murder of Danville man linked to oil deal;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Feds: Murder of Danville man linked to oil deal <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Serhat Gumrukcu, 43, of Los Angeles, was found guilty of murder-for-hire in April. He paid for the murder as Davis was threatening to go to the authorities in connection with wire fraud, while negotiating a multi-million dollar biotech merger. That merger was completed mere days after Davis\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">For nearly four years, the perpetrators of the murder were unknown \u2013 but Gumrukcu was arrested and denied bail as a flight risk in 2022.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.mychamplainvalley.com\/news\/local-news\/crime\/three-men-sentenced-for-2018-barnet-murder-for-hire\/?ipid=promo-link-block2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Three men sentenced for 2018 Barnet murder-for-hire;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\"> Three men sentenced for 2018 Barnet murder-for-hire <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Gumrukcu\u2019s friend Berk Eratay, 38, of Las Vegas, Nevada, was tasked with arranging the killing, and he engaged Aron Ethridge, 45, of Henderson, Nevada to find a hitman. Jerry Banks, 37, of Gardener, Montana, was hired as the actual hitman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Melissa Davis, Gregory Davis\u2019s widow, said that the prosecution\u2019s \u201cstrength, commitment, and unwavering pursuit of justice over these many years will stay with me for the rest of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mychamplainvalley.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC22 &amp; FOX44.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC22 &amp; FOX44. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More information on the Gregory Davis murder case can be found at ABC22\/FOX44\u2019s previous stories on the case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[40550,7,9,8,40548,40552,40551,40553,40549,548],"class_list":{"0":"post-68373","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-barnet","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-california-headlines","11":"tag-california-news","12":"tag-gregory-davis","13":"tag-jerry-banks","14":"tag-melissa-davis","15":"tag-murder-for-hire","16":"tag-serhat-gumrukcu","17":"tag-vermont"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}