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Angel Marie Whitley
Birth: August 22, 2001
Death: June 10, 2003
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No obituary found.
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Margaret Bass
Birth: circa 1944
Death: April 2, 2003
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DothanEagle.com
Matt Elofson Feb 4, 2011
Suspect's death ends Cottonwood murder case
A murder charge was recently dropped after the Cottonwood murder suspect died.
Attorney Eric Davis said his client, Frank Bass Jr., had his murder case dropped after he died last year. Davis said his client died sometime in the spring of 2010. According to court records Bass would have been 74.
According to a Dothan Eagle report, Houston County Sheriff’s investigators charged Bass on April 2, 2003, with the murder of his wife, Margaret Bass. Mrs. Bass, 59, suffered a single fatal gunshot wound to the head with a small-caliber gun at the couple’s Pybus Road home in Cottonwood.
Davis said at an earlier hearing his client’s health had deteriorated after he suffered a stroke several years ago while in jail. He also said his client had been living in a nursing home in Barbour County.
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Patricia Lynn Tomlin
Birth: unknown
Death: 2003
Obituary
No obituary found.
WTVY.com
May 26, 2006
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A Newton man has been sentenced, after being convicted in the shooting death of a woman.
36-year old Christopher Brian Hawthorne was sentenced to 35-years in prison, without parole.
Back in 2003, Hawthorne shot and killed Patricia Lynn Tomlin.
Assistant Chief District Attorney Bill Filmore says incriminating statements by Hawthorne, and forensic evidence proved the suspect's guilt.
“The sentencing s totally in the discretion of the court, and is up to the court to make that decision and it's a tough decision that a judge has to make, we're just very pleased. You can tell that the judge had though about it for quite a while after the hearing....and we really appreciate what he did,” said Filmore
Hawthorne contended it was an accident, but chief assistant district attorney bill Filmore convinced the jury otherwise.
Sharon Marie Mills
Birth: November 13, 1951
Death: February 13, 2002
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No obituary found.
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The Dothan Eagle
Matt Elofson - Aug 3, 2008
Homicide: Unknown; reported missing Jan. 8, 2002
What happened: Reported missing by her husband, Dwight Mills. On Feb. 13, 2002, Mrs. Mills was found dead in Holmes County, Fla. Foul play is suspected.
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On February 13, 2002 the body of Sharon Marie Mills was found located in a drainage ditch at the intersection of County Road 173 and Lyons Lane located just north of Bonifay in Holmes County, Florida. Sharon Mills was last seen alive around December 30, 2001 when she allegedly traveled to Panama City, Florida. Sharon Mills had resided in Dothan, Alabama for the last several years. Anyone with information regarding this case is urged to contact: The Holmes County Sheriff’s Department (Investigator Chris Wells) at (850) 547-3681 or FDLE (Special Agent Renee Hatton) at (800) 226-4554 or (850) 872-4545.
Jennifer Dawn Gibson
Birth: April 6, 1981
Death: November 13, 2001
Obituary
Burial: Gardens of Memory, Kinsey, Houston County, Alabama, USA, Plot: Christus Garden
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Brandi Hobson
Birth: abt 1984
Death: September 2001
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No obituary found.
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WTVY.com
Nov. 10, 2004
The murder trial for the 2001 killing of a Troy State freshman, Brandi Hobson, began this week.
Jonathan Antoine Rumph is accused of strangling the 17-year-old girl in her dorm room of the all-female Clements Hall nearly three years ago.
According to sources close to the trial, Rumph was offered life in prison, but did not settle.
Now, if Rumph is convicted, he can be sentenced to ten years to life in the case, but is not subject to the death penalty.
The case continues at the Pike County Courthouse.
Marcella C 'Marcie' Mills
Birth: June 5, 1967
Death: August 24, 2001
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No obituary found.
Burial: Christian Home Church Cemetery, Slocomb, Geneva County, Alabama, USA
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Margaret Snellgrove
Birth: March 5, 1924
Death: June 22, 2001
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No obituary found.
Burial: Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Ozark, Dale County, Alabama, USA
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The Dothan Eagle
Ebony Horton - Apr 1, 2010
OZARK — A Johntown community man on death row for a nearly decade-old murder in Dale County could get a new trial after a judge ruled in his favor this week.
Emanuel Gissendanner, 34, was granted a new trial on Tuesday after Dale County Circuit Judge Ken Quattlebaum ruled attorneys Joe Gallo and Bill Kominos could have made “unprofessional errors” while defending Gissendanner for the murder of 77-year-old Margaret Snellgrove.
Prosecutors with the state attorney general’s office have a little more than a month to appeal Quattlebaum’s ruling to the state Court of Criminal Appeals.
Gissendanner was convicted of capital murder, kidnapping and robbery after Snellgrove was abducted from her Choctaw Street residence in 2001 and found dead five days later in the Johntown area.
Authorities said Gissendanner was spotted at a bank with one of Snellgrove’s checks after her disappearance and had clothes at an abandoned trailer in Johntown in which some of Snellgrove’s property was found.
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