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Third triple homicide suspect pleads to manslaughter
Crime & Law Enforcement
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Third triple homicide suspect pleads to manslaughter

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • May 1, 2026

TUPELO – A Tupelo man avoided a possible death sentence Friday when he pleaded guilty to three counts of culpable negligence manslaughter in c…

Virginia man who killed daughter’s Tippah County boyfriend transferred to Parchman
Crime & Law Enforcement
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Virginia man who killed daughter’s Tippah County boyfriend transferred to Parchman

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Apr 9, 2026

RIPLEY – The Mississippi Department of Corrections wasted little time taking custody of a Virginia man convicted last month of murdering a Tip…

Jury finds Spence guilty of first degree murder
Crime & Law Enforcement

Jury finds Spence guilty of first degree murder

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Mar 28, 2026

PITTSBORO – A Calhoun County jury deliberated for just more than two hours Friday afternoon before finding Jeffrey Spence guilty of first degr…

NBC's 'Dateline' to air episode on killing of Ole Miss student Jay Lee Friday
Crime & Law Enforcement

NBC's 'Dateline' to air episode on killing of Ole Miss student Jay Lee Friday

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Jan 29, 2026

OXFORD – Long-running crime show "Dateline" will air an episode focused on the 2022 disappearance of former Ole Miss student Jimmy “Jay” Lee a…

Indiana man finally serving time for 1990 triple homicide in Fulton
Crime & Law Enforcement

Indiana man finally serving time for 1990 triple homicide in Fulton

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Nov 15, 2025

After serving one life sentence in New York for murder, an Indiana man was transported to Mississippi this week to serve three more life sentences.

Capital murder charge dismissed against Guntown man
Crime & Law Enforcement

Capital murder charge dismissed against Guntown man

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Nov 7, 2025

TUPELO – The District Attorney’s Office has dropped capital murder charges against a Guntown man who was the sixth and final person to be indi…

Madison County jury will hear second Herrington capital murder trial
Crime & Law Enforcement

Madison County jury will hear second Herrington capital murder trial

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Oct 8, 2025

OXFORD — A Madison County jury will determine whether Sheldon Timothy Herrington Jr. is convicted of the capital murder of Ole Miss graduate J…

Wife pleads prior to Tippah County capital murder trial
Crime & Law Enforcement

Wife pleads prior to Tippah County capital murder trial

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Sep 19, 2025

RIPLEY – A Pennsylvania woman set to go to trial for capital murder next week entered a plea to a lesser charge Friday in Tippah County Circui…

Mississippi Supreme Court sets October execution date for Charles Crawford
Crime & Law Enforcement

Mississippi Supreme Court sets October execution date for Charles Crawford

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Sep 12, 2025

JACKSON – The state’s highest court rejected the appeal of a Tippah County man who has spent more than three decades on death row and set an O…

Jury finds Emerson Houston guilty of capital murder
Crime & Law Enforcement

Jury finds Emerson Houston guilty of capital murder

  • By WILLIAM MOORE Daily Journal
  • Jul 16, 2025

WEST POINT – After deliberating for less than an hour, a Clay County jury found EmersonHouston guilty of capital murder Wednesday afternoon.

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