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6209062-Willie-James-Hemphill-all-documents Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t11p6kj93 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.7 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Page_number_confidence 7.04 Pages 1705 Ppi 300 Scanner Internet Archive Python library 1.8.5 Source I just didnt know how to say it. Now the spotlight is on three other deaths that are linked to the case. In addition, one jailhouse snitch has recanted, he said. Both men bounced from one traumatic living arrangement to another with no respite. Matthews never responded. After learning that Willie James Hemphill was an initial suspect in the murders at Tardy Furniture, reporters for In the Dark wanted to find out if he'd ever broken the law before. Willie Ray Hemphill, Jr., 49, of Bryan, passed away Thursday, August 13, 2009 at his residence. One of them wore Grant Hill Fila sneakers. Information APM Reports obtained from the Montgomery County Sheriffs Department through a public records request shows Hemphill was held for 11 days in jail. On July 2, the podcast, which has been downloaded more than 24 million times in its second season, laid out a lengthy argument that a different man, Willie James Hemphill, committed the 1996 murders. Burial will follow in Hemphill Star Cemetery, Boyce. In the Flowers case, Evans and investigators asserted that Flowers was the main suspect from the beginning, including up to his sixthand, so far, final trial. Mississippi Highway Patrol Lt. Wayne Miller, the investigator who created the lineup, testified that the only suspect pictured in the lineup was Flowers. Share Obituary. The two men had family in both Boston and Norfolk. Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. After nearly 23 years locked up, Curtis Flowers has a chance to get out on bail if his lawyers can convince the judge to rule in his favor. Willie James McDaniel Funeral services for Willie James McDaniel will be held at 12:00 p.m., Wednesday, January 26, 2022, at Hemphill Star Church in Boyce, La. Curtis Flowers is on Mississippis death row, convicted of the murders after six trials, but his lawyers, APM Reports In the Dark podcast, the Starz TV program The Wrong Man and others have raised questions about his guilt. His mothers mutt, Patches, was barking in the crawl space, causing him to find a gunbeneath the house she was renting. But instead of stopping there, its reporters started snitching to the same system whose injustice they had just unmasked. Gamble and Presley are serving life in prison for their Alabama crime spree. "They were investigating that intently back then. Sign the Guest Book . Marcus Presley, the gunman in the Alabama crime spree, was staring up at Ali from among the six photos in the lineup. Two weeks later, a picture of Marcus Presley, the shooter in the Birmingham murders, was included in a photo array shown to Porky Collins, a witness in the Winona, Mississippi case. Quantico National Cemetery. Search for Roberto Thorpe Living on Prison Blvd in Sparta, GA. Get started for free to find contact info for nearly any adult in the U.S. ADVERTISEMENT BY ANCESTRY.COM. - Law enforcement had interviewed a different suspect with a violent criminal history, Willie James Hemphill - a fact which was not disclosed to the defense. By licks he meant places to rob.. Menu. Their names are Michael Lee Boies , Crystal Davis , and six others. So, if Curtis Flowers isnt guilty, who is? Their reporters know better than anyone that Hemphill wouldnt get a fair trial. He was born on December 6, 1948 in Weir, Mississippi the son of Eddie Allen and Garner Lee Edwards Hemphill. 20181228 Willie James Hemphill Criminal Civil Records Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. The show has won rightful fame for its work helping to save Flowers life. Prosecutors said repeatedly at trial that the only suspect seriously investigated was Flowers. Miller, the Mississippi investigator who made the lineup and asked for the two to be interrogated, declined to answer questions from APM Reports. Podcasts should stick to exonerating the innocent. EPISODE 16. Case Number &colon; 20-11001. They wanted to ask him about his alibi for the day of the Tardy Furniture murders, an alibi that hadn't checked out. He didnt bother anybody.. On July 19, the Clarion Ledger did just that, finding wires, broken concrete blocks, parts of childrens toys and a plastic dog bone. Convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his wife and son. We went to boot camp together., The officers denial dont make me mad, he said. In 1996, four people were killed execution-style inside Tardy Furniture, which faces one of the busiest streets in the small town of Winona. Actually,In the Dark hasnt weighed in on the guilt-innocence issue (thats not what they do), but their careful dissection of DA Doug Evans case against Flowers has left the case in a shambles. They did, however, find bullets, bullet fragments and shell casings at the crime scene. And Hemphill had actually lived for a time in Winona. Nine days later, on July 25, 1996, the bodies of two innocent people were discovered in a pawn shop in Birmingham, Alabama. Marcus Presley sometimes accompanied by LaSamuel Gamble had committed a string of robberies in 1996 in and around Birmingham, with the same modus operandi. A surveillance camera revealed that the killer was wielding a 380 pistol that jammed repeatedly. Willie James Hemphill Birth 27 May 1919 Death 14 Jul 2000 (aged 81) Burial. The ugly facts of Hemphills past werent ugly enough for the podcast In The Dark emphasized its clear disdain of him. That same day, Horace Wayne Miller, a lieutenant with the Mississippi Highway patrol, asked Norfolk officials to keep him apprised of their investigation. Not the right Willie? Miller would not comment. Baran said she reached out to the two state investigators who questioned Hemphill, Matthews and Wayne Miller. Nothing in the investigative file for the case explains why officers let him go. Willie James Hemphill Phone Numbers (662) ***-4391 Steven McKenzie, the driver of the getaway car in the pawn shop murders, was arrested on August 1 in his hometown of Boston, Massachusetts. Illuminating Journalism from American Public Media. F.T. More: Curtis Flowers' prosecution witness says testimony was all 'make believe', More: Recanted testimony, subjective science helps put Curtis Flowers on death row, Supreme Court rules jury selection in Ga. trial unconstitutional. Belfast (2021; co-nominated with Denise Yarde, Simon Chase and Niv Adiri) References External links. So, if I am forced to pick an alternative perpetrator in this awful case I would lean toward the Birmingham Boys, Presley in particular. But we found a document showing that another man, Willie James Hemphill, had also been questioned just days after the murders. Inside the store, authorities discovered bloody footprints left behind by a Grant Hill Fila basketball shoe. "You're confusing me. Nationwide News Pty Ltd 2023. If youve listened toIn the Darkor watchedWrong Manon the Starz channel, you either came away convinced that Curtis Flowers didnt kill four people in cold blood back in 1996 or you werent paying attention. Contact Jerry Mitchell at 601-961-7064 or jmitchell@gannett.com. Told that Woods had a clear memory of being in Winona on the morning of July 16 and learning, outside the Piggly Wiggly, that the murders had just happened, Hemphill interrupted and altered his story. Record for Willie James Hemphill 27 May 1919 - 14 July 2000 in Quantico National Cemetery, Triangle, Prince William, Virginia, United States from BillionGraves GPS Headstones. He told them that a day or two after the murders he was driving back to Winona from Memphis when his stepfather called him and told him carloads of law enforcement officers had descending on his parents house looking for him. "False testimony is a corruption of the truth-finding process of a trial," Gershman said. "It just kind of jumped out," Ali said. On July 14, his mother, Lola, died of surgery complications. "Yes, sir," Snow replied. So, maybe Curtis didnt steal the gun after all. The day in photos. SEND FLOWERS. The answer was yes many, many times. In The Dark was clearly righteous in exonerating a black man condemned by a ludicrously unjust system. Soon that would change. The two of them walked the same school halls from first grade through high school, he said. He died on December 28, 1908, at his home in the section of Abbeville called Fort Pickens, and is buried in Melrose Cemetary, Abbeville. And, unlike Curtis, Doyle had more than a passing acquaintance with organized crime (a mobster once left him for dead in a field outside of New Orleans). He testified in multiple trials that the other images in the photo lineup were just "filler pictures," chosen "at random" based on some resemblance to Flowers. According to the July 8, 1996, police report, store owner Bertha Tardy reported to police that a burglar or burglars smashed through a skylight, tried to break into the safe and stole the side door key. The district attorneys office isnt commenting. 0 Rate Willie. I was scared I was going to go to jail.. Jurors at Flowers trials had only heard of one suspect who could have worn Fila Grant Hills Flowers although investigators never found the shoes they said he wore. "Best I remember is somebody brought it to the attention of the investigators that they wanted us to talk to him, and he came in and we talked to him," Matthews said on the stand in the sixth trial. So where was Hemphill during the day? The Tardy Furniture murders were committed at a store on Front Street in Winona, Mississippi, at about 10 a.m., and around the time that one of the store's employees, Carmen Rigby, was returning with a bank bag. And why did Doyles brother, Emmett, run from law enforcement when they came to question him on the morning of the crime? Relatives were alarmed to see a swarm of police cars descending on their homes in search of Willie James. Asked if he'd committed the murders at Tardy Furniture, he simply said, "Hell, no.". "I was coming out of Piggly Wiggly and there was a woman, I will never forget her name. In that 1963 ruling, the court said: "The suppression by the prosecution of evidence favorable to an accused violates due process where the evidence is material either to guilt or to punishment.". He said that side door leads to a ditch that would have provided a better escape route than simply walking back through town as authorities claimed Flowers had. According to the ledger, about$287 was missing from the cash drawer the morning of the murders. Jessie Mae Hemphill [1]1923-2006 Blues musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist, percussionist Blues musician and vocalist Jessie Mae Hemphill [2] was a paradox. Baran found Hemphills booking card showing he had been arrested and jailed a few days after the killing. "Yeah we was leaving. Presley shot and killed store employees execution-style on his way out the door. Name. Katie Ali had been researching parallels between the Tardy Furniture murders and a string of similar crimes that had happened that same summer in neighboring Alabama. It remains unclear why Mississippi investigators ruled them out as suspects. How do we create a person's profile? OBITUARIES. It wasn't that day." Yes and no. When Snow told police that the man she saw was about 5-foot-6, investigator John Johnson corrected her, saying she had already given the heights as 5-foot-10, according to an audio tape obtained by APM Reports. Does this theft provide a clue as to how the killers made their getaway? 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