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Alabama
Aug 29, 2004 7:47:04 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Aug 29, 2004 7:47:04 GMT -5
The owners of a self-storage business outside Athens called police Saturday night after smelling a strong odor. Once police arrived, they discovered a female body locked inside a van, inside a vacant, unrented storage unit.
It appears the woman found dead Saturday is Janet Haney. The Athens woman was reported missing by family members August 2nd.
Haney's husband had said Janet suffered from bi-polar disorder. Athens Police Department and Limestone County Sheriff's Department are investigating. They sent the body to a forensics lab for positive identification. The vehicle the body was in was the one Janet Haney was last seen in, Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely said.
"If it turns out to be Mrs. Haney - we're so sorry and our condolences go out to the family," Athens Police Chief Wayne Harper told WAFF on the scene Saturday night.
The autopsy is expected to begin Monday. The family has reportedly been notified that Janet has possibly been found.
Limestone County Sheriff Mike Blakely and Athens Police Chief Wayne Harper are not speculating on a definite cause of death until an autopsy is complete, but said it appears to be a suicide.
The body, along with a note with undisclosed contents, was found at Lovell Self Storage at 19208 Alabama 99 North near Athens.
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Alabama
Sept 29, 2004 12:16:02 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Sept 29, 2004 12:16:02 GMT -5
Bones found at an Anniston home last month have been identified as 40-year-old James Tuck. Tuck disappeared April 18, 2002, from the house where the bones were found by the new homeowners on Aug. 29.
Forensic scientist used DNA to make the identification. Anniston police said they have a person of interest in the case, but they aren't releasing the name.
Tuck’s remains were found in the crawl space under the house at 210 Wilmer Ave. Autopsy reports said he died from repeated blows to the head.
“We received information, which was this past Friday, from the Department of Forensic Science that the remains have been identified as James Tuck,” said Anniston police Lt. Rocky Stemen.
“We have a person of interest who we are looking for, who is possibly a suspect in this case,” said Stemen. “We haven't been able to locate him as of yet.
“There is a history there. It appears the person of interest we're looking for at some point knew the victim in this case,” said Stemen.
“We're still trying to link DNA evidence and still in the process of collecting other evidence to link this person of interest to the crime,” said Stemen.
Authorities have no timetable on when DNA or other evidence needed to crack the case might become available.
Efforts to locate family members of Tuck in the Anniston area were unsuccessful Monday.
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Alabama
Oct 25, 2004 15:33:34 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Oct 25, 2004 15:33:34 GMT -5
A sheriff's investigator says it appears the death of a man reported missing last week in Chilton County was accidental. Chilton County Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Stillwell said the preliminary cause of death in the case of 26-year-old Richard Chance Ezell is drowning.
Ezell disappeared last week in the Lay Lake area. On Friday, a fisherman found his body in a stream near the lake.
Stillwell said he does not expect any criminal charges to file. He also said the case will be closed until a final autopsy report issued and he said he does not foresee foul play being a factor.
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Alabama
Oct 27, 2004 14:19:50 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Oct 27, 2004 14:19:50 GMT -5
Authorities in Elmore County recovered the body of a missing woman Tuesday afternoon and the victim's husband is a prime suspect. Sheriff Bill Franklin said the remains of 29-year-old Michelle Norman were found in a wooded-area near a rural cemetery about 1:30 p.m. She was reported missing October 17th.
Franklin said a murder warrant was issued for 35-year-old David Norman who fled to his parent's home near Columbus, Ohio.
The sheriff said David Norman was questioned by investigators early yesterday and reportedly admitted killing his wife after the couple had an argument.
Franklin said he expects Norman to fight extradition. He said if that happens, he'll seek a governor's warrant to speed up the process.
The homicide is the first in Elmore County this year.
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Alabama
Jan 20, 2005 10:30:58 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Jan 20, 2005 10:30:58 GMT -5
Forensic scientists have identified remains found in rural Bullock County as those of a Union Springs woman who had been missing since New Year's Eve, the Alabama Bureau of Investigation said.
Bullock County Sheriff Raymond Jones said that the burned and mutilated body found by a hunter at 8:30 a.m. Thursday about a mile off County Road 49 was that of Cynthia Grant.
Grant, 43, was last seen leaving a local club and getting into a mid-size pickup driven by an unidentified male. A family member said they were told that she was shot in the back of the head and set on fire.
The ABI will not say if they have identified a suspect, but Jones said Elijah Coleman, 53, is a "person of interest."
"Everything in the case that we are putting together is leading us to him," he said.
Coleman is in the Macon County Jail on a probation violation and had been convicted of rape in Anchorage, Alaska.
Jones said Coleman was arrested by Macon County Sheriff's deputies on Jan. 12.
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Alabama
Feb 10, 2005 11:56:05 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Feb 10, 2005 11:56:05 GMT -5
Authorities on Wednesday identified the body found at the mouth of the Dog River this week as a South Dakota man who had been in town visiting relatives and had been missing for a few weeks, Mobile police said.
Bobby McMeans, 31, of Sioux Falls, S.D., was reported missing Jan. 25 by his sister, a Mobile resident, said Officer Eric Gallichant a spokesman for the Mobile Police Department.
McMeans drowned and there appears to have been no foul play involved, Gallichant said. The body was identified by his fingerprints, Gallichant said.
Leroy Riddick, the chief medical examiner for the Mobile office of the Alabama Department of Forensic Sciences, confirmed that McMeans had drowned. The manner of death -- such as whether by homicide, suicide or accident -- remained under investigation Wednesday, Riddick said.
The body was found washed ashore Sunday afternoon at Mobile Yacht Club, off the Dauphin Island Parkway in south Mobile County where Dog River meets Mobile Bay, another police spokesman said then.
"There were no obvious signs of trauma, but the body appears to have been there several days," said Cpl. Marcus Young.
A person walking along the shore found the body about 4 p.m., Young said.
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Alabama
Feb 15, 2005 9:25:58 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Feb 15, 2005 9:25:58 GMT -5
The body of a man listed as a missing person by the Dothan Police Department was found in a wooded area near the Mt. Moriah community on Saturday, Feb. 12.
According to information released by Pike County Sheriff Russell Thomas, the Pike County Sheriff's Department was notified that a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado, believed to belong to Gerald D. Decapua, 42, had been located in northern Pike County.
Deputies were sent to the scene and began a search of the area for Decapua. His body was located about 50 yards from the vehicle. Decapua was dead from what appeared to be a single gunshot wound.
The body was transported to the Alabama Department of Forensic Science in Montgomery for a postmortem examination. The incident remains under investigation.
According to the Pike County Sheriff's report, Decapua's family was in the area and was notified of the discovery of his body.
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Alabama
Apr 1, 2005 13:50:15 GMT -5
Post by LadyBlue on Apr 1, 2005 13:50:15 GMT -5
The body of an Opp woman missing for more than two years was found Wednesday night by authorities led to the remains by a man suspected in her disappearance.
The body of Susie Lucille Phillips was recovered near the Tri States Gun Club in Daleville. She was 37 years old when last seen alive in Opp in February of 2003.
She was seen on the camera of an Opp police officer's patrol car after her car was intentionally rear-ended by a man identified as Marcellous Evans of Daleville. Evans had denied any involvement in Phillips' disappearance.
But last week he pleaded guilty in Covington County to domestic violence and criminal mischief charges.
Dale County District Attorney Kirke Adams says Evans also agreed to plead guilty to a manslaughter charge in return for leading authorities to the woman's body.
It was found about 6 p.m. Wednesday night.
Adams says Evans claims he hit Phillips in the head but didn't mean to kill her.
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Alabama
Feb 5, 2022 21:01:04 GMT -5
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Post by Shay on Feb 5, 2022 21:01:04 GMT -5
A sheriff's investigator says it appears the death of a man reported missing last week in Chilton County was accidental. Chilton County Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Stillwell said the preliminary cause of death in the case of 26-year-old Richard Chance Ezell is drowning. Ezell disappeared last week in the Lay Lake area. On Friday, a fisherman found his body in a stream near the lake. Stillwell said he does not expect any criminal charges to file. He also said the case will be closed until a final autopsy report issued and he said he does not foresee foul play being a factor.
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Alabama
Feb 5, 2022 21:02:16 GMT -5
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Post by Shay on Feb 5, 2022 21:02:16 GMT -5
A sheriff's investigator says it appears the death of a man reported missing last week in Chilton County was accidental. Chilton County Sheriff's Sgt. Brian Stillwell said the preliminary cause of death in the case of 26-year-old Richard Chance Ezell is drowning. Ezell disappeared last week in the Lay Lake area. On Friday, a fisherman found his body in a stream near the lake. Stillwell said he does not expect any criminal charges to file. He also said the case will be closed until a final autopsy report issued and he said he does not foresee foul play being a factor.
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Alabama
Feb 5, 2022 21:06:12 GMT -5
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Post by Shay on Feb 5, 2022 21:06:12 GMT -5
To start off his last name is spelled Ezelle, yes it was ruled accidental drowning but no one actually believes that. It’s been 17 years since Chance’s death. His blood was splattered all over a neighbor’s house where said neighbor admitted to the police that they had gotten in to a fight, that they threw a brick into the window of his van (same van that was caught on fire) but were the 2 that Ezelle got into a fight with arrested or questioned? No they were not. This was one of chilton county’s many cover ups. Easy to do that when certain family’s fun the county and have their hands in law enforcement
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Alabama
Jun 22, 2022 13:29:36 GMT -5
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Post by Delithril on Jun 22, 2022 13:29:36 GMT -5
Weird, I haven’t thought about Chance in years! That guy sucked. He had the worst personality, but he didn’t deserve to die like that. Oh well, such is life I guess. I grew up with the guy, and though we weren’t friends, obviously. We ran around in same friend circles.
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