Prosecutor mulls Louisiana trial after Mississippi hung jury
A Louisiana prosecutor says his office will confer with Mississippi counterparts before trying a man who has been accused of murder in both states.
Second mistrial in case of Mississippi woman burned to death
A Mississippi judge declared a second mistrial Monday in the capital murder case of a man accused of setting a woman on fire, after jurors once again said they couldn’t reach a verdict.
Jurors see interview videos of man accused in burning death
Prosecutors on Friday played hours of interrogation videos in the trial of a man charged with burning a Mississippi woman to death, trying to show jurors how he repeatedly changed his story as he was confronted with contradictory evidence.
FBI agent: Man in burning death admits sex, denies timing
An FBI agent testified Thursday that the man on trial for burning a Mississippi woman to death told him the two had sex, but not on the day she died.
Unknown hitchhiker: Link to Mississippi burning death?
A woman testified Wednesday that she picked up a hitchhiker the night that a Mississippi woman was fatally burned, but she’s unsure whether it’s the man prosecutors have on trial.
Retrial begins for man accused in woman’s burning death
Quinton Tellis is the man on trial for killing a Mississippi woman by setting her on fire, but much of the first day’s testimony focused on emergency workers’ reports that Jessica Chambers told them an “Eric” had attacked her.
Second Chambers trial begins with Oktibbeha jury
A second trial in the Jessica Chambers murder case is set to begin today in Batesville after Monday’s jury selection in Starkville.
Retrial set for man accused in woman’s burning death
Was it Quinton or Eric?
That’s likely to be the choice again facing Mississippi jurors this week in the trial of Quinton Tellis, accused of setting 19-year-old Jessica Chambers on fire in her car in December 2014, only to see the dying woman stagger down a rural backroad and be found by firefighters.
Oktibbeha jury to be seated for retrial of Chambers murder
A major criminal trial will now at least include a jury from Oktibbeha County after an order filed Thursday in Oktibbeha County Circuit Court.
Mississippi man appeals judge’s ruling clearing prosecutor
A man accused of killing a Mississippi woman by setting her on fire is appealing a judge’s ruling clearing a prosecutor of misconduct, saying the judge used the wrong legal standard.
Judge won’t sanction prosecutor over inmate tampering claim
A Mississippi judge on Monday denied an attempt to throw a prosecutor off a murder case in which a man is accused of setting a woman on fire.
Defense lawyer: Prosecutor tried to coach false testimony
The defense attorney for a man charged with killing a Mississippi woman by setting her on fire says a district attorney sought false testimony from an unrelated defendant in exchange for leniency.
Retrial set for September in burned woman case
The retrial of a man charged with killing a Mississippi woman by setting her on fire has been delayed.
‘Very unusual’ mistrial in woman’s burning death
The jury in the tense murder trial of a Mississippi man charged with setting a 19-year-old friend on fire and leaving her to die handed a bailiff a note: They have reached a verdict.
What followed was confusion.
Investigator: Man charged with burning woman changed story
A man charged with fatally burning a 19-year-old Mississippi woman acknowledged that he was with her on the evening she was set on fire after repeatedly denying it during interrogations, an investigator said Friday.
Agent: Man charged with setting woman on fire offered alibi
A man charged with burning to death a Mississippi woman told an FBI agent he was miles away buying a debit card when she was set on fire.
Jury in trial of burned woman to visit key locations in case
A jury in the trial of a man charged with setting a 19-year-old Mississippi woman on fire and leaving her to die along a rural back road is scheduled to visit the crime scene in the case.
Trial begins to shed light on woman’s gruesome burning death
The night a 19-year-old Mississippi woman was burned to death, she and her killer had sex in her car and he thought he had suffocated her before he torched her vehicle with her inside, a prosecutor said Tuesday in an opening statement, presenting his theory of what led to the gruesome slaying.
Murder trial to open in horrific burning death of woman, 19
Jessica Chambers was on fire when she was found along a back road near a north Mississippi tree farm nearly three years ago.
Woman sentenced for scam trying to profit from burning death
A Mississippi woman is going to prison after using an internet scam to try to profit off the burning death of a teenager.