Grand jury to consider charges in Taiwanese woman’s death
A man accused of killing women in Louisiana and Mississippi is back in northeast Louisiana, where a prosecutor says a grand jury will consider charges in a Taiwanese woman’s stabbing death in 2015.
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.