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Huntsville
prostitutes arrested again
January 12, 2006
"We'll
target them again, put them back
in the judicial system and look at again receiving sentences," said
Police Chief Rex Reynolds.
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Sheriff's
Department makes prostitution sting
December 30, 2005
The Madison County Sheriff's Department raided a
Huntsville club Thursday night.
They
made a prostitution bust at a place called Fantasia that's located at
the very end of South Memorial Parkway in Huntsville.
Fourteen people were arrested.
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Women busted for prostitution
WAFF.com Jun 27,
2005
A prostitution bust in the Valley landed six
women in jail.
Huntsville police arrested these women at various
locations in West Huntsville this morning.
They're accused of soliciting sex for money.
Police say they've arrested more than 30 men and women
on prostitution charges since the first of the year.
Prostitution sting
nets men seeking sex
Twenty men arrested- all of them looking to buy sex in a
West Huntsville neighborhood, known as Lowe Mill Village. Police say
they men are from all walks of life; they could be your
neighbor, your friend.
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Prostitution sting
ends
with the arrest of 20 men
A Thursday police sting ended with the
arrest of 20 men -- all accused of soliciting sex.
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Grand jury clears
local woman
in man's death
A Limestone County grand jury has cleared a known Athens
prostitute of any wrongdoings involved in the death last year of a
64-year-old Athens man.
Evidence in the death of John Henry Brumitt was
presented this week to the grand jury and it was dismissed Thursday.
The 18-member panel "no billed" the case against Jacklin Mitchell, 41,
of 1711 West Elm St., Athens.
Preliminary results of an autopsy show Brumitt died from
a heart attack, the grand jury was told.
Police arrest 6 in prostitution case
Huntsville Times, Thursday, February 24, 2005
Huntsville police picked up six women on
prostitution charges Tuesday night during a sting operation in the Lowe
Mill Village and Governors Drive areas, said police spokesman Wendell
Johnson.
"Officers have been meeting with citizens in those
areas of west Huntsville in an effort to get the women off the
streets," he said. "The idea is that if you remove prostitutes, the
'johns' and other illegal drug activities have a tendency to die down."
Charged with soliciting prostitution were: Jeanne
White, 34, homeless; Faye Reynolds, 55, of Owens Cross Roads; Teresa
Kirton, 38, homeless; Jodie Duckworth, 28, Sixth Avenue; and Janice
Strong, 40, of Lowery Street.
Peggy Sue Wells, 47, homeless, was charged with
loitering for the purpose of prostitution, Johnson said.
Woman's
Body Dumped Beside I-565
Feb. 4, 2005
A disturbing discovery early this morning: a woman's
body is wrapped in a blanket and dumped along Interstate 565. The body
has been sent for an autopsy.
Police say the woman is 41-year-old Judy Ann
Donaldson of Huntsville, a known prostitute nicknamed "Puppy." However,
police still need to know how she died and how she got there.
The sighting of a body here along one of North Alabama's
busiest arteries caused quite a stir early this morning for passing
drivers. A driver spotted something alongside I-565. It turned out to
be a woman's body.
The Huntsville woman's body was wrapped in a blanket
lying next to the pavement westbound near the Wall-Triana exit. Police
quickly secured the scene. They borrowed a fire truck to get up high,
taking pictures for evidence.
Investigators are treating this case as a homicide,
meanwhile drivers said they couldn't believe the discovery:
Witnesses say although the woman was in a blanket she
appeared to be fully clothed underneath. She reportedly was even
wearing high heels. Investigators are still looking for clues. Other
than identity, they know little else, including how she died.
Police hope some of you may have seen something. They
hope someone will come forward very soon with answers.
The body has already been sent to the North Alabama
Forensics Lab. Investigators hope an autopsy will accurately reveal how
this woman died.
If you have any information, please contact the Madison
Police Department at 256-772-5600.
Prostitute Charged with Murder After Client has Heart
Attack During Police Questioning
Jacklin Mitchell was arrested after a 64 year old client
had a heart attack while being questioned by the police. Police were
called when Jacklin and the client scufffled when he refused to pay her
for services rendered. Jacklin is now being held on murder
charges in the Limestone Co. jail and really needs support.
Please send correspondence to:
Limestone County Jail
C/O Jacklin Mitchell
309 W. Green Street
Athens, AL 35611
She will write back if a stamped envelope is included.
Jeremy Jones faces second murder
charge
December 15, 2004
By SUSAN
DAKER Staff Reporter
Jeremy Bryan Jones, awaiting trial in a capital murder
case involving the death of a Turnerville woman, is now charged in the
slaying of a 16-year-old Georgia girl, authorities said Tuesday.
Amanda Greenwell was reported missing in March 2004,
said Investigator John Sweat of the Douglas County Sheriff's Department
at a news conference held Tuesday afternoon at the Mobile County
Sheriff's Department.
Jones, 31, has been questioned by authorities from
Missouri, Georgia and Louisiana about deaths in their jurisdictions but
until Tuesday, he had not been charged with murder outside Mobile
County. John Furman, the Mobile County assistant district attorney who
will prosecute Jones, said that unless something extraordinary happens,
Jones will not be extradited to Georgia.
Few details about the Georgia case were released at the
conference because Jones's legal rights to a fair trial need to be
protected, Furman said.
Nearly a month after Greenwell was reported missing, her
badly decomposed body was found in a wooded area in North Douglas
County, about 20 miles west of Atlanta, Sweat said. The victim's neck
was broken and a knife was used on her, Sweat said.
Originally authorities thought Greenwell had run away
from her mobile home, but investigators believe she may have been
abducted, Sam Copeland, deputy chief of the Douglas County Sheriff's
Department, told the Mobile Register in October.
Sweat would not say Tuesday if Jones would be charged
with any other crimes in connection with the death of Greenwell. In an
interview with a Mobile Register reporter in October, Jones admitted to
living in the same mobile home park as Greenwell but denied having
anything to do with her death.
Just two days after Hurricane Ivan, Lisa Nichols, 45,
was raped and shot to death in her trailer home in Turnerville, about
20 miles north of Mobile, authorities said.
Her body was found burned in an apparent attempt to
cover up the crime, Cpl. Paul Burch, the lead detective for the Mobile
County Sheriff's Department, said during Jones' preliminary hearing.
Jones was arrested Sept. 21 in connection with Nichols' death and is
being held without bond in Mobile County Metro Jail.
In November, a Mobile County Circuit Court judge denied
a request by Jones' lawyer, Habib Yazdi, to move the grand jury hearing
to another county because of heavy media coverage.
In both the local and national press, Jones has been
labeled a suspected serial killer. In Jones' home state of Oklahoma, he
is still wanted on rape, sodomy and rape by instrumentation charges
brought in November of 2000.
In New Orleans, Jones is still considered a person of
interest in the death of a prostitute, Katherine Collins, 47, said Sgt.
Paul Accardo, of the New Orleans Police Department.
New Orleans detectives traveled to Mobile in October to
take a DNA sample from Jones and are still awaiting the results,
Accardo said Tuesday.
Jones is also considered a suspect in the death of
another Douglas County woman, said Sweat, who interviewed Jones on
Monday and Tuesday of this week. There are similarities between the two
Douglas County murders, including that both victims were petite with
brown-hair and dark eyes, Sweat said.
Tina Eunice Mayberry, 38, was found stabbed after she
left a Halloween party at Gibson's bar in 2002, Sweat said. Jones was
known to frequent the bar, Sweat said.
In a nearly three-hour interview with Jones on Oct. 27,
he told a Register reporter that he did frequent Gibson's bar but
denied having anything to do with Mayberry's death. He instead focused
on what he called a watershed event in his life, meeting his future
fiancée whom he wants to marry while imprisoned at Metro
Jail.
He described meeting his fiancée: "I had been
attending a bar up there, Gibson's restaurant," Jones said. "There were
these two really attractive brunettes."
"Now, I've been single and without, you know, for four
to six months, without a woman," Jones said. "Still, the stuff in
Oklahoma haunted me. Just always looking over your back... afraid you
might run into someone you might know because there have been several
places where I've looked at someone and they've looked very familiar."
In 1996, Jones was originally charged with one count of
sexual battery and two counts of rape, said Ben Loring, who was then
acting district attorney of Ottawa County in Oklahoma.
The charges were reduced to three counts of sexual
battery when two of the three victims would not testify against Jones,
Loring said. The two women told police that they were too scared of
Jones to testify but they wanted him to be prosecuted for something,
Loring said.
In 1997, Jones pleaded no contest to unlawful possession
of a controlled drug and sexual battery charges and was sentenced to a
short time in prison, five years of probation and ordered to attend sex
offender classes, according to Oklahoma court records.
"I think he was clearly a sex offender," Loring said.
"It seemed his behavior was getting more violent."
Alabama
murder suspect linked to prostitute slayings in New Orleans
NEW
ORLEANS New Orleans police believe they have linked the killing of a
suspected prostitute to a man arrested in southwest Alabama who is
suspected in the killings of at least four other women.
Jeremy
Bryan Jones was arrested last month in Mobile accused of killing a
45-year-old Mobile County woman. He is also suspect in alleged crimes
in Missouri and Georgia.
Police
in New Orleans also say Jones could also be linked to the killing of a
suspected prostitute whose body was found in a grassy area near a
former housing project. The woman was an American Indian -- that's one
link to the killings of at least four suspected prostitutes in four
states.
Investigators
believe those women were picked up at truck stops, then sexually
assaulted and beaten to death with a tire iron. The woman found dead in
New Orleans was killed the same way. Police have few details about the
victim found in New Orleans and are asking the public for help in
identifying her.
New
Orleans detectives will travel to Mobile tomorrow to consult with
police there. They say they have D-N-A from the killer and hope that
will link the case to Jones.
  Does
Huntsville have a serial killer on the loose?
Three women have been murdered in the last 3 months...
and the circumstances are eerily-similar. Sergeant Ed Cain
with Huntsville's Major Crimes Unit says this would be a first in
Huntsville. This may 'not' be a serial killer. But
the similarities are striking.
The victims are all women, all
known as local prostitutes, all found within a small radius in West
Huntsville. The first body was found on December
16th. 45-year-old Debbie Harris, found dead in her burning
Mirabeau apartment off Bob Wallace. The fire was intended to
cover up her murder.
The second body found was
actually the first murdered. 23-year-old Jennifer Butcher, was
found December 20th, under a house on Triana
Boulevard. The hiding of the bodies is a continuing
theme. In this case, the body could have gone undiscovered in
the crawl space of this empty house indefinitely, but for a handy man
looking for tools.
The 3rd murder happened this
week. 47-year-old Isabell Pam, another known prostitute,
whose body was found Wednesday hidden behind a building on Blake Street.
Police are investigating the
cases as 3 separate crimes.
So far, no arrests, no suspects. Sgt. Cain says, in
this same time frame, there's been increased reports of drivers being
asked for rides, by strangers.
He advises extra
caution. If you have any information on any of these three
murders, contact Huntsville's Major Crimes Unit. WAAY-31 newsgroup
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