NEW BOSTON, Texas: The defense rested Monday in Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston. Tracy, 39, is facing a possible death sentence in the July 15, 2015, beating death of Barry Telford…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Several defense experts testified in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial that the inmate who beat a correctional officer to death in 2015 at the Barry Telford Unit has a “broken brain.” Tracy,…
A man who never returned after lunch during his trial in Bowie County for felony drunk driving Wednesday received a 20-year sentence from a jury. Eric Darnell Jemison Jr., 32, is now a wanted man. Jemison was in court for…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: A medical expert testified Thursday for the defense that inmate Billy Joel Tracy has an abnormal brain. Tracy, 39, is facing a possible death sentence for beating Correctional Officer Timothy Davison to death July 15, 2015, at…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: The state rested its case Tuesday in the sentencing phase of Texas inmate Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial. Tracy, 39, faces a potential death sentence in the July 15, 2015, murder of Correctional Officer Timothy Davison…
NEW BOSTON, Texas–A jury in Bowie County handed down a 35-year prison sentence Friday for a former National Guardsman who slipped into a female guard member’s hotel room as she slept in November 2014. Ronnie Ricks, 33, and a group…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Correctional Officer Katie Stanley testified Friday that she believed she was going to die after Billy Joel Tracy stabbed her seven times in 2005 with a handmade knife at a prison in Amarillo, Texas. Tracy, 39, is…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Witnesses who testified for the state Thursday in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial described the Texas inmate as a trouble maker bent on taking the life of a correctional officer. Tracy, 39,…
NEW BOSTON, Texas: Testimony in the sentencing phase of Billy Joel Tracy’s capital murder trial began Wednesday after jurors heard opening remarks from the prosecution and defense. Tracy, 39, is facing a possible death sentence in the July 15, 2015,…
The Wake Village Police Department announced today that charges of Capital Murder have been filed against Andrew Deiontrey Hamilton. The charges were filed in connection with the murder of Winfred Hamilton, 61 of 402 Village Lane in Wake Village. This…
A former nurse accused of manslaughter in the death of a diabetic inmate last year entered a not guilty plea Tuesday at a hearing in Miller County, Ark., circuit court. Brittany Danae Johnson, 27, appeared with Texarkana lawyer Jeff Harrelson…
Miller County prosecutors have formally charged three people who were arrested last month for alleged mistreatment of a goat and multiple dogs. William Lake Evans, 25, is facing a charge of felony animal cruelty and a charge of misdemeanor animal…
New Boston, Texas: Texas prison inmate Billy Joel Tracy was found guilty of capital murder Friday morning after a jury deliberated for about an hour at the Bowie County courthouse in New Boston. The jury will return next week to…
New Boston, Texas: The state and defense rested mid-afternoon Thursday in the trial of a Texas prison inmate facing a possible death sentence for killing a correctional officer at the Barry Telford Unit in July 2015. Billy Joel Tracy, 39,…
New Boston, Texas: A Dallas medical examiner testified Wednesday in the trial of capital murder defendant Billy Joel Tracy that the correctional officer he is accused of beating to death in 2015 suffered massive skull fractures. Tracy, 37, is facing…
