Police in Alabama have arrested the mother of a baby whose body was found inside a freezer in a hotel room. News outlets report 36-year-old Amanda Gail Oakes is charged with manslaughter and corpse abuse in the death of 6-month-old Curtis James Oakes. Police previously charged her 28-year-old boyfriend, Carlton James Mathis of Gainesville, Georgia, with murder in the child’s…
Uniontown Police are searching for Latarsha Denise Shepherd for criminal solicitation to commit murder. Police say an unidentified man was killed following an altercation that involved four men. The physical altercation happened on Buck Ave. in Uniontown last Saturday morning. Roshawd Letrel Shepherd has been charged with murder this case. Esayvon Barnett is being charged with assault in the second…
A woman wanted for questioning in connection with a double homicide investigation has contacted Crimestoppers. Crimestoppers says Nichollete Jackson called them this afternoon at approximately 2:45 p.m. after learning she was wanted for additional questioning by investigators in the murder case of rapper Edward Reeves and his cousin, Kendrick Stokes. Police say they were initially looking for Jackson because she failed…
Two Montgomery teens will go on trail as adults for a murder in Prattville. Autauga County authorities say Roderick Demar Williams was 14 and Devonte Raymon Hill was 15 in 2016 when they killed 56 year old john Michael Taylor of Prattville. The Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals upheld the transfer to adult court. Autauga County Authorities say Taylor was…
A grand jury in Alabama will hear the case of a woman accused of fatally stabbing her husband with a sword. Authorities say 50-year-old Jeannette Hale stabbed her husband, Mark, in the chest while he played a guitar in their home on April 2. Lawrence County Sheriff Gene Mitchell tells AL.com that responding deputies found Mark Hale bleeding on their…
Montgomery County Sheriff’s deputies say a man has been charged in the killing of a woman who had been reported missing. Sheriff’s officials say Kenny Darity is charged with felony murder in the death of Christina Bloss. Bloss was reported missing last February. Her skeletal remains were found in Lowndes County last Thursday by hunters. Court documents indicate that Bloss was…
The Montgomery Police Department has arrested a Montgomery man in the stabbing death of George Tucker, 41, who was fatally wounded Friday, March 16, during a verbal dispute over a woman known to both men. MPD charged Jermaine Hoston, 24, with murder after he turned himself in to the Montgomery Police Department on Tuesday, March 20. Following his arrest, Hoston…
The husband of a suburban mom who lived a double life as an online exhibitionist has been indicted in her death. A court document filed Thursday shows 44-year-old William Jeffrey West is charged with murder in the slaying of Kathleen Dawn West. The 42-year-old woman’s partially clothed body was found in the street outside their home in Calera, Alabama, in…
Attorney General Steve Marshall announced the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld the murder conviction of Joe Brown. Brown, 55, of Butler, was convicted in Choctaw County Circuit Court in March of 2017 for the murder of Jeremy James. Evidence presented at trial showed that on August 22, 2014, Brown killed James by an attack that caused injuries including…
A shooting in the town of Camp Hill in Tallapoosa County has left one person dead and four others injured. According to Capt. Joe Herman with the Alabama SBI, the agency has was asked to assist with the homicide investigation by the Camp Hill Police Department. The shooting took place on Martin Luther King Street. The person who was killed is…
