What we know about Macon murder suspect’s 2nd homicide case, missing persons report
The man charged this week with murder in a fatal downtown Macon beating has been tied to additional law enforcement investigations, including a Tennessee murder and a missing persons case in Florida.
Adam Arthur Rosenthal, 39, has been charged with murder after a body was found on a religious commune in Tennessee, and in Macon after he allegedly beat someone to death, authorities confirmed. The victim in the Macon attack was 59-year-old Albert Kenneth Knight Jr., who was “struck several times in the head” in an alleyway near Poplar and Second streets in downtown Macon on May 26, the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said.
Rosenthal, at-large until Monday, was reported missing from his hometown in Gainesville, Florida, about a month after the Macon murder.
Rosenthal’s family and friends notified the Gainesville Police Department about his disappearance on June 18, according to public information officer Brandon Hatzel.
Rosenthal was found Monday when he was arrested in connection to a separate homicide in Pulaski, Tennessee, a small town on the state’s central-southern border.
What we know about Tennessee murder
A man was reported dead from likely stab wounds on a religious commune in Pulaski on Nov. 26, according to the Giles County Sheriff’s Office.
Rosenthal and the victim were not strangers to each other, according to Lt. Josh Bass.
Deputies were notified of a dead body, later identified as Darren Gambrel, around 1 p.m. that day on Ichabod Lane on property owned by a religious living community called The Twelve Tribes, Bass explained.
“They live as a whole community on a private piece of property,” Bass said.
Gambrel and Rosenthal lived on the grounds and were members of the group, Bass confirmed. Rosenthal lived there for five to six months, and Gambrel lived there much longer.
“Everybody in that community knows each other so yes, he did know the victim,” Bass told The Telegraph.
The Twelve Tribes is a “confederation of 12 worldwide self-governing tribes, made up of self-governing communities,” its website says. “We believe everything that is written in the Old and New Covenants of the bible.”
He thanked the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, Giles County Emergency Management and emergency medical services for their assistance in the “lengthy multiagency investigation.”
Rosenthal was charged with criminal homicide, aggravated assault resulting in death and tampering with evidence.
Then, Rosenthal revealed to investigators he was also connected to the Macon alleyway murder, Bass said.
The Bibb County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday that it served a warrant on Rosenthal for Knight’s murder.
This story may be updated as more information becomes available.
This story was originally published December 5, 2024 at 2:26 PM.
