The State of Alabama has executed a man who admitted to killing five people with an ax and gun near Mobile during a drug-fueled rampage in 2016.
Authorities say the south Alabama house where five people were slain with an ax and gunshots has mysteriously burned. Sheriff’s officials say they’d gotten a tip that the home in Citronelle, Alabama, would be burned – and then it went up in flames Sunday morning. Authorities say 27-year-old Derrick Dearman of Leakesville, Mississippi, is accused of killing five people in…
A Mississippi man accused of killing five people in a south Alabama home with blows from an ax and gunshots has pleaded not guilty. Authorities say 27-year-old Derrick Dearman of Leakesville, Mississippi, attacked the three men and two women as they slept Aug. 20 and then kidnapped his estranged girlfriend, who had sought shelter in the house to get away…
An Alabama sheriff says the suspect in the slaughter of five adults was armed with an ax as he attacked them in their sleep, using the weapon to strike one of his first victims in a reclining chair and then moving through the house to assault the others. Mobile County Sheriff Sam Cochran says Derrick Dearman overpowered the victims in…
