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William Norris Avery
Birth: April 22, 1930
Death: September 16, 2015
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William N. Avery, 85 years of age, and a resident of Vermilion, passed away Wednesday, September 16, 2015 at Anchor Lodge Nursing Home in Lorain, following a brief illness.
He was born April 22, 1930 in Big Clifty, Kentucky. William had made his home in Vermilion for the last forty years.
He was employed at Ford Motor Company in Lorain for many years before retiring as a repairman. William loved to repair watches for his colleagues at Ford. He was the handiest of men, and enjoyed to tinker and fix things. In his earlier years, he loved fishing and being outdoors.
Survivors include his daughter Julie Sikorsky of Ashland; and his friend Cynthia "Cindy" Couch of Vermilion.
He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers and sisters.
Services will be held privately by the family.
Arrangements by Hempel Funeral Home, (440) 988-4451, HempelFuneralHome.com
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Julie Sikorsky
Press Release: January 23, 2019
Yes that's dad's obituary but I must also point out some corrections about the obituary. Family did not get to have the service. I'm the only family left and I never even knew my dad was still alive let alone get to say goodbye to him so I was never notified. This friend Cynthia Sue couch was really his POA who ended up taking advantage of him. She didn't pay the taxes on the ill-gotten house and I don't know how to regain the home back into the family as I'm on SSI. I'm getting the runaround trying to make a police report but it seems police don't handle civil matters. Cindy changed the life insurance beneficiary from next of kin to herself and she's not even family so I don't know who this person is. Funny dad died exactly 3 weeks to the day this was done but the anchor lodge nursing home refused to talk to me because I'm not his POA. The nursing home never said and should've known POA stops when someone dies. I eventually found this out for myself during my research about elder financial abuse. I'm going to send some screenshots, hopefully you can view them OK. I hope this helps you explain the story as I was through a long legal battle before Cindy vanished to dodge the lawsuit. Hopefully she can be found so a separate complaint against her can't be filed but I don't know how long the SOL is as this case recently got dismissed when the insurance company called uniCARE settled only for us to find out Cindy vanished. This is the only reason why the case had to be dismissed but a separate complaint can be filed against her at a later date if we can find her and get her address actually official on paper. Had she been in jail this never would've happened. Just burns me up that my dad's house was put out of reach but the paranormal activities probably won't even bother me as I've since been saved. The curse though it's still on the property as long as the property is misappropriated and the curse will remain as long as the property is misappropriated. I don't know who can help me get this property back but it starts with finding Cindy. Her last address before she vanished was 772 Ellis Ave. in Ashland Ohio, she wasn't running her own place but living with the owners. She took my dad's furniture and my dad died intestate, meaning no will and by Ohio law, since dad was widowed and never remarried I'm supposed to get everything but Cindy took my dad's belongings, including most likely vintage furniture
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Norman Battle Jr
Birth: circa 1987
Death: April 22, 2015
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DothanEagle.com
Jim Cook - Apr 23, 2015 Updated Sep 14, 2015
No Castle Law defense in Gordon stabbing
Gordon on Wednesday, according to Houston County Sheriff Donald Valenza.
Paul Bernard Peterson, 29, of Gordon has been charged with murder in the stabbing death of Norman Battle, 28, also of Gordon. Peterson’s bond was set at $100,000. Peterson has made bail and secured his release from jail pending his trial.
Valenza said the stabbing occurred as a result of an argument between Peterson and Battle at 63 St. Mary St. in Gordon on Wednesday afternoon. During the argument, Peterson obtained a knife and stabbed Battle multiple times, Valenza said.
Initial calls to police concerning the incident were made around 2:58 p.m.
After the stabbing, Battle fled and was picked up by a passerby, who attempted to take the injured man to a hospital. Battle didn’t make it, and the driver was met by police at an Ashford gas station where Battle was pronounced dead around 4 p.m.
Valenza said Alabama’s Castle Law would not apply to the incident because it occurred outside Peterson’s home. The Castle Law, passed in 2007, allows homeowners to defend themselves from burglary or assault within their homes with deadly force.
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Matt Elofson - Sep 14, 2015
Alabama Castle law may have gotten Gordon man out of murder indictment
Gordon man no longer faces a felony murder charge after a Houston County grand jury recently no-billed the case.
Attorney Cada Carter said his client, 29-year-old Paul Bernard Peterson, was eating watermelon on his front porch when he had to use a knife to defend himself from another man who attacked him as he ate the melon.
“My guy was sitting there eating watermelon,” Carter said. “The guy went up on his porch and attacked my client first.”
Carter said he believed the grand jury returned no murder charge because of the Alabama Castle law, which allows for people to defend themselves on their own property with deadly force.
Deputies with the Houston County Sheriff’s Office arrested Peterson on April 22 and charged him with felony murder. Deputies charged him in the stabbing death of 28-year-old Norman Battle.
Houston County Sheriff Donald Valenza told the Dothan Eagle shortly after the arrest how the stabbing occurred as a result of an argument between Peterson and Battle at 63 St. Mary St. in Gordon.
After the stabbing, Battle fled and was picked up by a passerby, who attempted to take the injured man to a hospital. Battle didn’t make it, and the driver was met by police at an Ashford gas station where Battle was later pronounced dead.
The Alabama Castle Law, passed in 2007, allows homeowners to defend themselves from burglary or assault within their homes with deadly force.
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Debbie Gail Ayers
Birth: September 1, 1965
Death: August 15, 2014
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Matt Elofson - Aug 6, 2015 Updated Aug 7, 2015
Shawn Adkison guilty of murder in Geneva County woman's death
A jury found a Slocomb man guilty of murder on Thursday in less than 20 minutes.
Geneva County District Attorney Kirke Adams said the jury returned with the guilty verdict against 41-year-old Shawn Lee Adkison. He faces 10 to 99 years or life in prison when he is sentenced at a later date.
Adkison was one of two people indicted on felony murder charges in connection to the death of 49-year-old Debbie Ayres. The trial against Adkison started earlier this week in Geneva.
A similar felony murder charge remains pending against Christopher Edward Finley, 45, of Dothan. His case was also scheduled for trial this week, but it was delayed.
Authorities originally arrested both Finley and Adkison in October 2014. State police investigators initially only charged Finley with murder and filed a felony hindering prosecution charge against Adkison. Deputies with the Geneva County Sheriff’s Office assisted in making the arrests.
Geneva County Sheriff Tony Helms told the Dothan Eagle earlier that the charges stemmed from a Geneva County missing person investigation. The victim’s body was found in October 2014 on property off U.S. 84 West in the Wicksburg community.
Helms said Ayres was found buried in 3 to 4 feet of dirt in the woods just past County Road 9 in Wicksburg. Helms said Ayres lived in the Black community of Geneva County.
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Press Release: AL Attorney General Luther Strange
Appeals Court Upholds Geneva County Murder Conviction
Attorney General Luther Strange announced that the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals last Friday upheld the murder conviction of Shawn Adkison. Adkison, 42, of Slocomb, was convicted in Geneva County Circuit Court in August of 2015 for the murder of Debbie Ayers.
Evidence presented at trial showed that Adkison was involved in a dispute with Ayers and that he killed her on August 14, 2014. Ayers died of blunt force trauma to the head.
The case was prosecuted at trial by Geneva County District Attorney Kirke Adams’ office. Adkison was sentenced to a term of 85 years’ imprisonment. Adkison subsequently sought to have his conviction reversed on appeal.
The Attorney General's Criminal Appeals Section handled the case during the appeals process, arguing for the Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals to affirm the conviction. The Court did so in a decision issued on Friday, July 1.
Attorney General Strange commended Assistant Attorney General Beth Slate Poe of the Attorney General’s Criminal Appeals Section for her successful work in this case.
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WTVY News 4 - Published: Jul. 19, 2018 at 4:24 PM CDT
Convicted Geneva Co. murderer denied by Criminal Appeals Court
The Alabama Criminal Court of Appeals has denied the petition of Shawn Lee Adkison. Adkison from Slocomb was convicted of the 2014 murder of Debbie Ayers.
Adkison, 44, of Slocomb, was convicted in Geneva County Circuit Court in 2015, for the murder of Debbie Ayers. Evidence presented at trial showed that Adkison was involved in a dispute with Ayers and that he killed her on August 14, 2014. Ayers died of blunt force trauma to the head.
The Geneva County District Attorney’s Office prosecuted the case. Upon conviction, Adkison was sentenced to 85 years in prison. Adkison’s subsequent attempts to have his conviction and sentence reversed on appeal have been rejected by the courts.
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James Matthew Tice
Birth: September 16, 1987
Death: June 4, 2014
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James Matthew Tice of Dothan passed away Wednesday, June 4, 2014. He was 26.
Funeral services will be held at 3 P.M. Tuesday, June 10, 2014 at the Ward Wilson Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Hosea Parker officiating. Burial will follow in Memory Hill Cemetery with Ward Wilson Funeral Home directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 8 P.M. Monday, June 9, 2014. Flowers will be accepted.
Matthew liked to work on cars with his dad. He played all sports growing up and loved fishing. He was a loving father to his son Braylen.
He is preceded in death by his grandfather Taft Bruner, and great-grandfathers Bill Ormes and J.L. Tice.
Survivors include his son Braylen Tice of Dothan; the mother of his son Amber Chason of Dothan; "Granny and Granddaddy" Robert and Pam Floyd of Dothan who adopted him at age 5, father Billy Tice, step-mother Joy Tice of Dothan; mother and step-father Mechelle and Harry Goodwin of Dothan; grandfather Willie Gene Tice of Dothan; grandparents Patsy and Rex Watkins of Dothan; Ben and Deborah Ward of Montgomery; great-grandparents Frankie and Charles Batchelor of Dothan; special aunt Tammy Hale-Bang of Charleston, S.C.; brother Joseph Tice of Dothan; step-brother Owen Allen Tice of Dothan; step-sisters Hope Shirah of Dothan; Haley Ward of Dothan; special friend Kayla McDaniel of Dothan; several nieces and nephews and other family members.
The family will be gathered at 800 Mandarin Ave or 414 Hagler Rd Dothan.
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Matt Elofson - Jun 5, 2014
James Tice killed in Geneva Co. shooting
James Matthew Tice, 26, of Dothan, died from multiple gunshot wounds late Wednesday night, according to Geneva County officials.
Chief Sheriff’s Deputy Tony Helms said deputies are looking for a “person of interest” in connection to a homicide in Malvern on Wednesday night. He said deputies responded to an emergency call of shots fired around 10 p.m.
Geneva County Coroner Robert "Hagler" Ward II said he responded and pronounced 26-year-old James Matthew Tice dead at 11:42 p.m.
Ward said he found Tice in the front yard of a trailer located on Cohen Road.
Ward said Cohen Road is a dirt road located off another dirt road called Cook Road, which is off Jay Saunders Road.
Ward said Tice suffered multiple gunshot wounds, which resulted in the homicide that’s being investigated by the Geneva County Sheriff’s Office and agents with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation.
Ward said Tice was sent to the state Department of Forensic Sciences in Montgomery Thursday for an autopsy to determine to an official cause of death.
Helms said details of what happened were not available because of the ongoing investigation.
“We’ve got someone who fled the scene,” Helms said.
Helms said deputies are looking for a “person of interest” for their possible involvement in the homicide. Helms said its Geneva County’s first homicide of 2014.
Anyone with information about the homicide can call the Geneva County Sheriff’s Office at 334-684-5660.
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Staff Post - June 14, 2014
Authorities have charged a convicted sex offender with murder in the shooting death of a Dothan man last week in the Malvern community.
Geneva County Sheriff Greg Ward said investigators have arrested 29-year-old William Robert Williamson Jr. Friday afternoon and charged him with murder. Ward said investigators have charged Williamson with the shooting death of 26-year-old James Tice the night of June 4.
“We got a tip that he was at a trailer on Geneva County Road 4 south of Fadette, at a small trailer park,” Ward said. “Marshals went in and got him and ABI has been interviewing him. He is being charged with murder for the Malvern shooting.”
Ward said more charges are pending in the ongoing investigation into the first homicide in Geneva County in 2014. Ward said more people could also be charged in the ongoing investigation.
Tice, of Dothan, suffered multiple fatal gunshot wounds to his body and was found by authorities in the front yard of a trailer on Cohen Road, a dirt road off another dirt road off Jay Saunders Road in the Malvern community.
The homicide remains ongoing by investigators with the Geneva County Sheriff’s Office and agents with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation.
Rick Clemmons, an agent with the U.S. Marshals Service Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, said agents arrested Williamson around 11:15 Friday morning.
Clemmons said officers from several different law enforcement agencies assisted in Williamson’s capture, including agents with the ABI, deputies with the Geneva County Sheriff’s Office, deputies with the Houston County Sheriff’s Office, and an agent with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).
Clemmons said Williamson had been wanted by authorities on three pending felony warrants for his arrest, two out of Houston County and a third out of Geneva County. Clemmons said Williamson was wanted for a pending felony unlawful possession of a controlled substance charge out of Geneva County, and two sex offender notification act violations out of Houston County.
Court records show Williamson has a pending felony drug distribution charge out of Houston County.
Agents with the agriculture division of the Alabama Bureau of Investigation arrested Williamson in January in connection to an animal cruelty investigation involving dead cattle.
Records show Williamson pleaded guilty last month to 34 misdemeanor crimes in connection to the investigation. Investigators charged him with 17 counts of animal cruelty and 17 counts of failure to properly bury and burn animals.
Court records show Williamson to be a convicted sex offender.
According to the Alabama sex offender registry website, Williamson was convicted of the second-degree rape of a 15-year-old girl in Houston County in 2006.
According to the sex offender website, Williamson listed his home in the 1100 block of Forrester Road in Houston County.
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Matt Elofson - Sep 9, 2015
William Williamson Jr. gets life sentence for killing James Tice in Malvern
A Geneva County judge sentenced a Dothan man on Wednesday to life in prison without parole for the shooting death of a 26-year-old man in the Malvern community.
District Attorney Kirke Adams said Circuit Court Judge William Filmore sentenced 30-year-old William Robert Williamson Jr. to spend the rest of his life in prison without the opportunity for parole.
A jury found Williamson guilty last month of murder in the shooting death of James Tice on June 4, 2014.
Adams said based on Williamson’s criminal history he faced an enhanced sentencing range of either life in prison or life without parole in prison.
“The life without the possibility of parole sentence assures the family that they don’t have to travel to parole board hearings to fight to keep this guy in prison,” Adams said via email message. “It also makes our community a much safer place.”
According to the court’s order, the court considered how Williamson had nine prior felony convictions, ranging from drug possession to drug distribution to second-degree rape.
Filmore said he also considered the evidence presented at trial which included how Williamson fatally shot an unarmed man five times, probably while he was on the ground. He said the evidence showed Williamson had “no regard for human life.”
Filmore also found no mitigating circumstances or redeeming qualities in the defendant and as a result found Williamson has forfeited his right to live in a free society.
The homicide was investigated by deputies with the Geneva County Sheriff’s Office, along with investigators with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation.
Williamson also has two pending felony unlawful possession of controlled substance charges in Geneva County.
Court records show the following information about Williamson’s criminal history:
According to the Alabama sex offender registry website, Williamson was convicted of a second-degree rape of a 15-year-old girl in Houston County in 2006.
Williamson pleaded guilty earlier this year to a felony drug distribution charge in Houston County. He also pleaded guilty last year to 34 misdemeanor charges, 17 counts of animal cruelty and failure to bury livestock charges in connection to a dead cattle investigation.
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Daniel Dawsey
Birth: August 23, 1982
Death: May 6, 2014
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Mr. Daniel Dawsey of Dothan, AL passed away, Tuesday, May 6, 2014 at Southeast Alabama Medical Center.
Visitation will be Monday, May 12, 2014 5-7 P.M. at the funeral home; Funeral Services will be held Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:00 A.M. at the Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church; burial will be follow at the Church Cemetery; under the direction of the caring staff of Scott’s Chapel Hill Mortuary “Because We Care”.
Daniel Lanier Dawsey, “D-Dawsey” was born August 23, 1982 to the late Carrie Bell Dawsey and Sammie Corbitt and a family full of love and togetherness.
He was a member of Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church. Daniel was a graduate of Dothan High School. He was currently employed at Wayne Farms and enrolled at Troy University, studying Physical Education.
Daniel had many who loved him and enjoyed spending time with him. He was planning a future with a special lady, Jambria Register, who loved him unconditionally. Daniel will forever be remembered and definitely missed by his children: Kameron, Kameia, Makinley and Levi; siblings: Johnny (Prince), LaTonja Pride, Lisa Dawsey Baker (Travis), April (Kentay), Sandra (Dominic), Kim Fields (Brian), Jessica (MaBoya), Krystal; two that were like sisters to him, LaKesha and Jazzilyn; grandparents: Thelma Dawsey and David Aaron (Janice); n!eces and nephews: Imani, Kenjana, Aliyah, Heidi, Brianna, Ja’Kory, Keyshon, Davonta “D.J.”, Ty’Relle, Trey, Zahairia, Kehion and Kylen; great nephew: Brayden; two special aunts: Lillie Taplin and Luretha Laws; special child of his heart, Christian Peterson; other very loving, aunts, uncles, relatives and friends.
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AL.COM
Erin Edgemon - May 7, 2014 at 12:53 PM,
Man dies after being shot in head Tuesday night, Dothan police say
DOTHAN, Alabama -- A 30-year-old man was fatally shot in the head Tuesday night on Eugene Street in Dothan.
Police are now searching for the suspected shooter, Emanuel Tarrail Bryant, who is being charged with murder.
Dothan police responded to the 100 block of Eugene Street and found the victim, Daniel Lanier Dawsey, lying on the ground and unresponsive at around 8:33 p.m., Dothan Police Sgt. Maurice Eggleston said.
Dawsey was transported to Southeast Alabama Medical Center where he died at around 9:30 p.m.
Investigators say the shooting stemmed from a physical altercation between the two men.
Bryant, who is considered armed and dangerous, is described as being a black man, 6 foot 1 inches tall and weighing approximately 160 pounds.
Anyone with information is asked to call Dothan police at 334-615-3000. Anonymous tips can be made by calling Crime Stoppers 334-793-7000 or by texting the word ‘DACS’ and the tip to CRIME (274637).
Updated with additional information from Dothan police at 12:53 p.m.
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Kim Allen - Aug 06, 2015
Emanuel Bryant Guilty Of Manslaughter In Dawsey Shooting Death
A Houston County jury deliberated more than four hours before finding Emanuel Bryant guilty on manslaughter charges in the shooting death of Daniel Dawsey in May of 2014. Bryant faced a murder charge, but the jury found him guilty on the lesser included charge of manslaughter.
The defense called into question the credibility of prosecution witnesses during the trial. A sentencing date is set for August 26th, where Bryant could be sentenced to life in prison.
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Matt Elofson - Aug 26, 2015
Victim’s family finds justice in 35-year sentence issued in fatal shooting
Kim Fields said the 35-year prison sentence issued to her brother’s killer on Wednesday gave the family some justice.
Fields spoke shortly after the sentencing for Emanuel Bryant, who received the 35-year sentence from Circuit Court Judge Butch Binford. A Houston County jury found Bryant guilty earlier this month of felony manslaughter in the shooting of 31-year-old Daniel Dawsey, Fields’ brother.
“It will help me to keep from reliving his death, and now focus on his life,” Fields said. “It will bring us some closure.”
Dothan police investigators arrested Bryant on May 8, 2014, and charged him with murder in the shooting death of Dawsey. Dawsey suffered a fatal gunshot wound in the 1000 block of Eugene Street around 8:30 p.m. The shooting happened during an altercation in the street. The jury found the 31-year-old Bryant guilty of the lesser included felony manslaughter charge at trial.
Patrick Henry Baker
Birth: February 19, 1945
Death: April 29, 2014
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Michelle Mann Dec 3, 2014 Updated Jan 6, 2015
New Brockton man arrested for assault now charged with murder
The robbery and assault charges initially filed against a New Brockton man have been upgraded to murder.
Jasen Scott Caradine, 32, is charged with murder in connection with the April 29 death of a 69-year-old man on Coffee County Road 521.
Caradine initially faced felony first-degree assault and felony first-degree robbery charges in connection with an April 19 attack on Patrick Baker in Baker’s home.
Baker, who had received multiple injuries during the attack, was transported to Southeast Alabama Medical Center for treatment and then transferred to a Birmingham hospital. He died April 29.
According to news reports at the time of the assault and robbery, Caradine allegedly used an aluminum bat during an armed robbery of the man in his home, during which cash was taken from the victim.
Caradine was booked into the Coffee County Jail and held on a total of $45,000 in bail on the two charges. He had been out on bond.
He was re-arrested Tuesday following a Coffee County Grand Jury indictment changing the first-degree assault charge to murder.
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Michelle Mann May 18, 2016 Updated May 19, 2016
Man convicted of assault in connection with New Brockton man’s death
A New Brockton man charged with murder and first-degree robbery was found guilty of neither after a five-day trial in Elba that ended Friday, May 13.
Jasen Scott Caradine, 33, was found not guilty of the murder of 69-year-old Pat Baker of New Brockton and not guilty of first-degree robbery in connection with the case.
The six-man, six-woman jury deliberated nearly eight hours over two days before finding Caradine guilty only of the lesser-included charge of first-degree assault.
Caradine remains free on bond waiting sentencing July 21 in Circuit Judge Jeff Kelley’s courtroom.
Caradine had been arrested within 15 minutes after the New Brockton police received an E-911 call April 19, 2014 from one of Baker’s neighbors who reported that he had found Baker, apparently beaten and robbed of approximately $1,000, inside Baker’s home on County Road 521 in New Brockton.
Caradine was charged with assaulting Baker with a metal baseball bat during the robbery, leaving Baker with wounds to the back of his head, multiple facial fractures, a lacerated liver and broken arm bones. Baker died in a Dothan hospital 10 days after the assault. Testimony during the trial was that Baker’s death was caused by a heart attack.
Calling it “the strangest murder case I have ever seen,” Caradine’s attorney, Matt Lamere, said that when his client was arrested at a New Brockton service station some 15 minutes after authorities had issued a “be on the lookout” alert for a black pickup truck, there was no blood found on Caradine and there was no blood found in his truck.
Authorities did not order forensic testing on Caradine’s clothing, nor did they conduct DNA testing on Caradine, according to court testimony.
Four hundred and fifty dollars in cash was found in Caradine’s pickup truck, Lamere said, before questioning how some $600 more money allegedly taken from Baker could have disappeared in 15 minutes. “The money might be the most important piece of evidence,” Lamere said. “Why didn’t (law authorities) see if Pat Baker’s DNA was on the money—they had it in their hands and they didn’t do it.”
Caradine’s clothing was not tested for traces of Baker’s blood, tire tracks found outside Baker’s home were not measured for possible vehicle identification and a cigarette butt found outside Baker’s home was not tested for DNA traces, Lamere reminded the jury in closing arguments. “There is a horrendous lack of evidence here.”
Lamere also reminded the jury in closing arguments that the neighbor who called E-911 after finding Baker was in fact a person with a felony burglary conviction.
Lamere said the convicted felon was the person, along with Baker’s daughter, who was allowed entry into Baker’s home to clean it up the day following the incident.
“Was (the convicted felon) the chief investigator in this case? It appears so,” Lamere said. “There would have been justice for Pat Baker if everyone involved had done their job.”
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mike Gurspan - Published: Jul. 21, 2016 at 5:21 PM CDT
Caradine Assault Sentencing
Today..., the man responsible for the death of an elderly Coffee County man was sentenced.
Initially charged with murder and robbery..., a jury last may convicted Jason Caradine of a lesser charge of first-degree assault. Two years ago..., Caradine walked into 69-year-old Pat Baker's New Brockton home and slammed the victim's head with an aluminum baseball bat... Baker died 10 days later... Today..., Caradine was sentenced to 15-years-and-eight months in a state penitentiary…
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Ryan Cannon
Birth: Unknown
Death: April 25, 2014
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Edward Owen "Eddie" Andrews"
Birth: December 4, 1984
Death: December 28, 2013
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Edward Owen "Eddie" Andrews of Samson, Alabama passed away Saturday, December 28, 2013. He was 29.
Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, January 3, 2014, in the chapel of Sorrells Funeral Home in Geneva with Rev. Woodie Dupree officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairview Baptist Church Cemetery with Sorrells Funeral Home and Crematory of Geneva directing. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Thursday, January 2, from 5 until 7 p.m.
Eddie was born December 4, 1984, in San Francisco, California. He was a 2003 graduate of Louisburg High School in Louisburg, North Carolina where he enjoyed playing on the high school baseball team. He was an avid sports fan, but football and cars were his passion. He also enjoyed his animals especially his dogs.
His father, Malcolm Owen Andrews, and his two grandfathers, Stanley Catrett and Otha Malcom Andrews, all preceded him in death.
Survivors include his mother, Brenda Sue Catrett Andrews; sister, Melissa Sue Andrews, both of Samson; brother, Samuel Catrett (Marjorie), Pensacola; grandmothers: Hazle Catrett, Samson, and Doreen Andrews, Louisburg, NC; special niece, Madison Fuller, Louisburg, NC; a number of special aunts, uncles, cousins, other extended family and friends.
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WSFA 12 News Staff | January 13, 2014 at 9:47 PM CST - Updated July 9 at 7:40 PM
Suspect arrested in Samson stabbing homicide
SAMSON, AL (WSFA) - A murder indictment is being handed down by the Geneva County Grand Jury against a woman accused of stabbing a man to death on December 28, 2013.
Felicia Ann Lane, 40, now faces a murder charge while being held in the county jail.
The District Attorney's office and the Alabama Bureau of Investigations showed evidence during a grand jury hearing on Jan. 9, 2014 that Lane stabbed 29-year-old Edward Andrews in the chest with a small kitchen knife.
Andrews was pronounced dead in the home on South Bay Street in Samson that he shared with the suspect. The stabbing happened during an altercation, according to police.
No further details regarding the case have been released.
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Kim Allen - Aug 06, 2015
Samson woman pleads guilty to fatal stabbing
A Samson woman faces two to 20 years in prison after she pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a man.
Geneva County District Attorney Kirke Adams said 41-year-old Felicia A. Lane pleaded guilty Monday to a reduced felony manslaughter charge in front of Circuit Court Judge Kenneth Quattlebaum.
Agents with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation arrested Lane in January, charging her with felony murder. Agents charged Lane with using a knife to stab 29-year-old Edward Owen Andrews to death on Saturday Dec. 28, 2013.
The stabbing death was investigated jointly by the Samson Police Department and the ABI.
Samson police Investigator Jimmy Hill told the Dothan Eagle the stabbing death happened at 613 S. Bay St. in Samson, which is also Lane’s residence of record. Hill said the stabbing death involved some type of domestic incident.
Quattlebaum hold a sentencing and probation hearing for Lane on Dec. 4. Lane faces two to 20 years in prison for the class B felony crime of manslaughter.