by Janie Jones The West Memphis Child Murders: Part 1 The West Memphis Child Murders: Part 2 The West Memphis Child Murders: Part 3 In 2007, when FBI profiler John Douglas was investigating the murders of Christopher Byers, Stevie Branch and Michael Moore, he said Stevie’s stepfather, Terry Hobbs, was “on the front burner” of suspects.…
by Janie Jones Need a Refresher? Here’s Part 1 of Murder Mystery: The Pistol Packing Preacher In the early 1930s, a rivalry between two preachers, Joseph Jeffers and Dale Crowley, resulted in violent confrontations between their opposing factions. This series of incidents, known as the “Jonesboro Church Wars,” led to one of the ministers being tried…
By Janie Jones The Morgan Nick AMBER Alert is Arkansas’ version of the nationwide system used by law enforcement and media to notify the public when a child may have been abducted. The sooner the word gets out, the better the chances are finding the juvenile. AMBER is an acronym for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency…
The Morgan Nick Story by Janie Jones An old superstition says if you make a wish when you see the first lightning bug of the year, the wish will come true. But for Colleen Nick, lightning bugs remind her of the night her six-year-old daughter, Morgan, went missing. On June 9, 1995, Colleen and Morgan…
By Janie Jones For more than 25 years, the unsolved murder of Pamela Felkins haunted a lot of people: her family and friends, the people of Greenbrier where she lived and died and the investigators who would catch a lead only to see it vanish in the wind. Was her killer a stranger? Or was…
By Janie Jones [dropcap]I[/dropcap]n November of 1987, Friday the 13th was an especially unlucky day for John Markle, the vice president of Stephens Inc. in Little Rock. Markle lost his job that day. More precisely, he was fired. It was an ignominious end to a career that had begun with such promise. Before he received…
By Janie Jones The day of December 28, 1987, unfolded like something out of a movie — a surreal sci-fi plot in which all the residents of a small town go mad at the same time. In Russellville, the Pope County Sheriff’s Office got a call about a shooting at Peel Law Firm. Within minutes,…
This is a re-release of the case printed in the AY November 2006 issue. If you have any leads or information, contact info is at the bottom of the page. By Janie Jones :: Photography by Janie Jones :: Courtesy of Susan Tusing [dropcap]M[/dropcap]ore people attended Amanda Tusing’s funeral at the Dell Baptist…
2005 Sees a Major Breakthrough in the Kristin Laurite Murder And a Narrowing of the Funding Gap at the Arkansas State Crime Lab By Letha Mills Photos Courtesy of Kristin Laurite’s Family Last July, five years after the murder of 25-year-old Kristin Laurite, a suspect was finally identified through a national DNA database. Laurite…
In 1933, the notorious Barrow Gang terrorized northwest Arkansas and shot down a town marshal. Photography courtesy of Dallas Municipal Archive, City of Dallas. Originally appeared in AY‘s March 2013 issue. On May 1, 1933, Henry D. Humphrey pinned on a shiny marshal’s badge and swore to protect and serve the more than 700…
