Jessica Chamber’s mother sat through two grueling trials, hearing gruesome evidence of how her 19-year-old daughter was strangled, set on fire, and then taken to a hospital where nothing could be done to save her life. Both trials ended with hung juries despite what seemed to be overwhelming evidence against Quinton Tellis, a Mississippi man …
PLUS: Alabama teen charged with killing mom, sister; Mom, girlfriend charged with burning infant
The testimony phase of the retrial of a Mississippi man charged with the burning death of a 19-year-old woman has ended. As CrimeOnline previously reported, 29-year-old Quinton Tellis was in court again last week after a mistrial on murder charges last year. He was arrested on suspicion of causing fatal injuries to Jessica Chambers, who …
A Mississippi man told investigators that he received extensive burns when he fell while performing a stunt near a bonfire, not during the brutal homicide of a 19-year-old woman. According to the New York Post, recordings of that interrogation were released in Panola County Circuit Court this week as jurors consider whether 29-year-old Quinton Tellis …
CrimeOnline’s own Nancy Grace has weighed in on the retrial of the man accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in Courtland, Mississippi, in 2014. Quinton Tellis is facing a jury for the second time this week after last year’s proceedings ended in a mistrial after a jury couldn’t agree on a decision. At this …
The second day of testimony is under way at the murder retrial of Quinton Tellis, the man accused of burning 19-year-old Jessica Chambers alive in Courtland, Mississippi, in 2014. When Tellis was tried last year, it ended in a mistrial when a jury couldn’t come to a decision. A key argument for the defense, then …
PLUS: Trial starts in case of teen burned alive
Murder suspect Quentin Tellis is facing a jury for a second time in the shocking burning death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers. Chambers was found burned alive in December 2014 when volunteer firefighters responded to the scene of a burning car in Courtland, Mississipi. Chambers was still clinging to life when first responders found her, thought …
A Mississippi-based reporter will never forget the December day when she learned a 19-year-old girl had been burned alive in a small southern town not far from where the journalist lives and works. Theresa Apel was one of the first reporters on the scene of the shocking murder of Jessica Chambers, a well-liked teenager in …
Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers is not only about the killing of Jessica Chambers, but about how her brutal murder — indeed unspeakable in its violence and cruelty – brought national attention and tore apart a small Mississippi town of just over 500 people. Jessica was 19 years old when volunteer firefighters found …
In an extended preview clip of Oxygen’s upcoming series “Unspeakable Crime: The Killing of Jessica Chambers,” residents of the tiny Mississippi town where 19-year-old Jessica Chambers was burned alive talk about their shock and grief at the horrific crime that claimed the life of a former cheerleader whose “smile would light up a room.” Four …
A defense attorney representing the Mississippi man charged in the burning death of Jessica Chambers filed a motion accusing a district attorney of coercing a possible witness to provide false testimony in the 2017 trial that ended with a hung jury. LocalMemphis.com reports that Darla Palmer accused District Attorney John Champion of pressuring Jalen Asir Matthews Caudle …
