A 28-year-old Black man is missing in southern Mississippi, and police are searching for a white couple in connection with his disappearance. Willie Ray Q. Jones, 28, was last seen on July 6 wearing a black shirt and gray and white shorts. He is described as 5 feet 7 inches tall, 216 pounds with black …
The Mississippi Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling this week, denying Joshua Miller’s attempt to have his life with parole sentence changed to allow the possibility of parole, the Hattiesburg American reports. Miller, now 38, was convicted in 1997 of killing his on-again, off-again 13-year-old girlfriend, Kristin Aultman, on August 18, 1996, when …
Just hours after US Marshals named him to their Top 15 Most Wanted List, Jacob Blair Scott was arrested on charges related to the rape of a 14-year-old Mississippi girl in 2018. A tipster recognized him as a man called “Luke,” living in an RV camper in Oklahoma, where he’d been since faking his death …
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A woman has sued Mississippi officials, claiming jailers denied her incarcerated mother insulin before her death in September 2018. According to the Biloxi Sun Herald, Kayla Rush filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in connection with the September 10 death of her mother, Cindy Michelle, 38, who had Type 1 diabetes. Michelle was arrested on …
A Mississippi woman who was last seen leaving her job at Domino’s on Friday was found dead on Tuesday, according to reports. Citing police, the Mississippi Clarion Ledger reported that Hilereca Dortch’s body was discovered near the intersection of Old Yazoo City Road and Heindle Road in Madison County. Her body was located roughly five …
A Mississippi police officer was killed on Thursday while joining an ongoing chase involving two teens and a stolen car. Officers were reportedly chasing Darion Dogan, 16, and Johnathan Taylor, 15, in a stolen car, when they crashed into Panola County constable Eula Ray Hawkins, 57, as he responded to the ongoing pursuit. WHBQ reported …
In addition to the high-profile murder of a University of Mississippi student, local authorities have been tasked with investigating the slayings of four more women — all who were killed over the past weekend. The Clarion Ledger reported that arrests have been made in four of the five murders which have occurred in the state …
A man in Mississippi who remains jailed for allegedly murdering a pregnant woman who was days away from giving birth was reportedly due in court last Wednesday for a paternity hearing. The Mississippi Clarion-Ledger reports that Terrance Sample, 33, was scheduled to appear in Attala County Chancery Court two days after Makayla Winston’s body was …
The man accused of killing his girlfriend and their unborn child was denied bond during his court appearance Wednesday in a Mississippi court. The Mississippi Clarion Ledger reported that Terrence K. Sample, 33, is facing two counts of murder for the deaths of Makayla Winston, 21, and her unborn child. Holmes County District Attorney Akille …
Makayla Winston was reportedly days away from giving birth
After spending almost a dozen years behind bars after being wrongfully convicted in 1994, Cedric Willis has reportedly died as a result of gun violence near his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Since his exoneration and release in 2006 thanks to the work of the Innocence Project, he had dedicated his life to helping others as …
The Supreme Court ordered a new trial for a Mississippi death row inmate who was tried for the same crime six times by a prosecutor accused of showing a pattern of racial bias in the jury selection process. Curtis Flowers, 49, spent 22 years on death row for the 1996 fatal shooting of four employees …
