Crime and Courts

If you have ever walked in a Starbucks in the morning hours, you know it is always jam-packed. That was no different last week at a Starbucks in Florida, right down the street from a resort full of Spring Break vacationers. Young ladies and young men from schools all over the country. Yes, that includes right here in Alabama.

Why Alabama? Tuscaloosa? Northport? Birmingham? More on that later. Yes, a famous killer of two children, Paula Sims, is on her way to Alabama.

A teen killed this past weekend in Montgomery has been identified.

Justin Ross Harris of Tuscaloosa will not be retried for the 2014 death of his 22-month-old son, according to the Cobb County District Attorney.

Defense attorneys are seeking to subpoena four witnesses for a second hearing in the Jamea Harris capital murder case later this month.

A 79-year-old man from Bankston was found guilty of attempted murder this week relating to a 2021 shooting.

The sentencing phase for Koran Lewis, the third suspect convicted in the 2017 murder of Jennifer Nevin, is taking place this week in Tuscaloosa.

Multiple books and movies (including the excellent "Once Upon A Time In Hollywood") have been produced about the two night killing spree in August of '69. I've seen them all and yet I never knew that one of the most vicious, awful killers of the bunch headed for Alabama! Charles Manson definitely had some kind of strange power. He was able to lure young, beautiful girls into his sordid family by the dozens.

"She was the most beautiful, loving and sweet person I had ever met" The words of Winchester Hagans from East Alabama near Notasulga, Alabama. The love of his life? Her name was Hannah Ford. In a cruel twist, as they searched for the perfect place to tie the knot, Hannah was killed. It was a terrible car accident. It happened on that same day they finally were able to find a wedding venue.

THIS is the worst story I have ever reported to the public. Two parents have been indicted on charges of second-degree murder of their daughter. That, in itself, is bad enough. However, Clay and Sheila Fletcher have been booked into a Louisiana jail after their daughter was found dead after sitting on a sofa for OVER 12 years.