A former Alabama couple has been sentenced to a combined 1,161 years in prison for sexually abusing two juvenile family members, allegations that first surfaced in 2007, WIAT reports. Lisa Marie Lesher, 41, was sentenced Monday to 738 years after her conviction on October 1 on two counts of rape in the first degree, four …
The teacher allegedly pushed pressure points on the kids’ shoulders and neck to get them to comply
A south Alabama couple already charged with child sex abuse have now had child pornography added to their charge sheet, WSFA reports. John Bright, 49, and Tiffany Hughes, 32, were initially arrested in September when the Dale County Sheriff’s Office received a tip about sexual abuse involving a minor child under the age 12 and …
The teen’s accused killer was out on bail on attempted murder charges when the slaying ocurred
An investigation is underway in Alabama after a pack of dogs reportedly mauled a woman to death on Monday. According to WIAT, mother-of-four Ruthie Brown, 36, died following a dog attack on Jagger Road in Walker County. Brown was pronounced dead at the scene. “We are not talking about just gaping wounds,” Walker County Coroner …
A convicted child rapist is seeking a pardon from the state of Alabama, almost 50 years after he molested and assaulted a 7-year-old girl who was a student in his Sunday school class. Leon Albert Prince, 79, served 15 years of a 30 years sentence after his 1991 conviction for carnal knowledge of a child, …
Matthew Miller was sentenced this week to 600 years in prison for the crimes.
The man who pleaded guilty to bombings at women’s clinics in Alabama and Georgia, a lesbian bar in Atlanta, and the 1996 Olympic Games is pushing to have his sentences vacated, WBMA reports. Eric Robert Rudolph, now 54, filed a hand-written motion in federal court in Alabama claiming that his conviction for the 1998 bombing …
An Alabama college student charged with murder in the death of a fellow student told police he shot Adam “Belle” Dowdell in the back of the head in self defense, a Montgomery police detective testified Friday, the Montgomery Advertiser reports. Ivry Hall, 20, fled to his hometown, Chicago, days after the shooting and told his …
Montgomery, Alabama, police arrested a 20-year-old man for the shooting death of an Alabama State University student whose body was found Monday after he was reported missing on September 8, Alabama News reported. Adam “Belle” Dowdell, 22, was a second year student at the historically black university who was reported missing when he failed to …
The parents of a 2-month-old Alabama girl have been charged with aggravated child abuse after the infant stopped breathing and was rushed to a hospital — where doctors found she had 12 fractured ribs and a healing broken wrist. Kylar Matthew Markley, 22, and McKayla Leigh Allen, 19, both of Gadsden, were arrested September 3, …
A 22-year-old college student left his Alabama State University dorm room in downtown Montgomery late Tuesday night to get money from an ATM, but his friends say he never returned, and now police and his family are searching for him. Adam “Belle” Dowdell is a second year student, last seen wearing a white shirt, checkerboard …
