“She had admitted that Jackie McConnell was beating her,” said Frost’s daughter-in-law, Jessica Mullins. “We picked her up and took her to Renee’s (Farrier, her daughter) house. We got her clothes and medication but she went back the next day.” Within 24 hours on Jan. 14, Albion police and Calhoun County prosecutors say, McConnell, 48, had killed Frost and left her body in a ditch...
Lind said the night of the assault, Jackie knocked down Frost and she got up and went to the bathroom. He went in. “She gave him an incredible stare and collapsed,” Lind said. The attorney said McConnell couldn’t detect a pulse but took Frost to their bed and laid with her after dressing her body.
Later he placed her in the car and drove around, stopping at the home of his sister to drink. He left Frost in the car with its engine running in the bitter cold. When he returned he still found no pulse and Frost was not breathing. McConnell then took her body and left it in a ditch at a tree farm outside Albion and fled to North Carolina, where he had family.
