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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 8, 2021

Former Hamilton County prosecutor and later private attorney Stanley Joseph "Stan" Lanzo has died at a facility in Boston, Chattanoogan.com reports. A native of Revere, Massachusetts, Lanzo graduated from the University of Tennessee College of Law in 1968. He joined the office of Hamilton County District Attorney Gary Gerbitz and handled a number of high profile cases, including the 1975 prosecution of Kenneth Stanley King and Jackie Renner Robinson, who were accused of killing Hixson dentist Robert P. Elliott. Robinson, who was the suspect in multiple murders for hire, was convicted and later died in prison. Lanzo went on to practice law for 54 years.