Pebblebrook, GA High school staff member enters guilty plea May 28, 2002
Virgil Life "Chip" Spaur, 31, technical director of the high school's theater in 1996 and 1997 was arrested in June 2000. Released on bond, he left the state and failed to appear in court. He was later found in Montana. Returned to GA, he faces up to 80 years after pleading guilty to two counts of aggravated child molestation and one count of statutory rape of a 14-year-old female student. While on the run, he sent letters to the DA and the girl's family indicating that there may be other students he molested.