GUILTY GA - Jennifer Ewing, 54, Smyrna, 25 July 2006

[Paladin]

Get those teeth marks examined!

 

[concernedperson]

Get those teeth marks examined!

Pretty good forensic people around here. No doubt it is being done. The fact that they named him as a suspect tells me they are pretty sure.

 

[southcitymom]

They have arrested the lead suspect - apparently the victim put up quite a fight.


http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/0729metsilver.html

 

[englishleigh]

Good for Jennifer, and God rest her. Prayers for her family, esp. for her husband and three children. She was a wonderful lady and human being.

This monster shouldn't have been out of prison...another one who should have remained locked up. When will the criminal justice system get that these people can't be rehabbed?
:behindbar

 

[dragonfly]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9583095/detail.html
DALLAS, Ga. -- Funeral services have been set for Jennifer Ewing, the mother of three brutally murdered along the Silver Comet Trail earlier this week.


Services will be held on Monday at 11:00 a.m. at the Buckhead Church at 4967 Roswell Road.


Authorities in Paulding County say Ewing died of blunt force injury to the head and chest.


Her body was found Wednesday in woods not far from the trail.

(more at the link above...)

 

[southcitymom]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/0731silver.html



FIrst charges made in this case.

 

[close_enough]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/0731silver.html



FIrst charges made in this case.

hmm, curious who the two women in the courtroom were...

 

[southcitymom]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/0801metcomet.html


Rape victim warned of murder suspect's release

By CARLOS CAMPOS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/01/06
A rape victim in Paulding County issued an eerie warning 15 years ago about the man investigators charged last week with killing a Sandy Springs cyclist and mother of three off the Silver Comet Trail.

"I dread the day he gets out because I think he'll do it again," the 22-year-old woman told authorities in 1991. "There are no words to tell you; it is a hellish nightmare."


She sounded the alarm in a victim's impact statement filed as part of the court proceedings against Michael William Ledford. The statement is among documents the Journal-Constitution obtained Tuesday from the Georgia Board of Pardons and Parole. Ledford, 43, spent 10 years in prison after his rape conviction in the 1991 case.

 

[christine2448]

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/9644686/detail.html

Authorities say the man charged in the death of a 54-year-old cyclist on the Silver Comet Trail had blood in his home and car.


Court documents filed yesterday say authorities saw the car of Michael William Ledford about 100 yards from where Jennifer Ewing's body was found.

 

[curious1]

UGH! When these 'things' rape/abuse children/women why can't we just kill them? Why are they continuously let out to do it again and again???? I just wish the ghosts of the victims would come back and haunt the people responsible for letting these 'things' out of jail. :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: :banghead: I think I am going to buy a gun.

 

[christine2448]

I think I am going to buy a gun.

We have several, I was very against them for a long time wouldn't let hubby bring in the house, most of his 'weapons' were at MIL's house, he had one pistol in his truck...but not anymore. A while back there seemed that home invasions were becoming a common thing in metro atlanta.... I now have a shotgun in the house at all times and pistol for house and one for each car....let someone come in my house to hurt my family or try and grab me or my kids while we are loading groceries!!!!


:hand: Before you all jump on me about having guns and kids in the house, we are responible adults and know how to keep them 'up' and 'away' from our children. :hand:

 

[southcitymom]

I think I am going to buy a gun.

I know I would just shoot myself accidentally.

 

[curious1]

Get a shotgun. Harder to do that with one oh and if your loved ones want to stage a 'suicide' that would make it hard also. (I have a bit of a morbid sense of humour.)

 

[southcitymom]

Get a shotgun. Harder to do that with one oh and if your loved ones want to stage a 'suicide' that would make it hard also. (I have a bit of a morbid sense of humour.)

I love your Stewie quote!

 

[curious1]

Why thank you. :crazy:

 

[southcitymom]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/0825metsilver.html

New evidence released in Silver Comet murder case

By YOLANDA RODRIGUEZ
Staff writer
Published on: 08/25/06
A man charged with murder in the death of a cyclist on the Silver Comet Trail was ordered held for trial following a hearing Friday in Paulding County.

Michael William Ledford, a 43-year-old convicted rapist from Paulding County, remains jailed for the July slaying of Jennifer Ewing, a 54-year-old Sandy Springs mother of three whose body was found about 70 feet off the popular exercise trail near mile marker 17.

 

[southcitymom]

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/0826metsilver.html


Blood, prints link suspect to trail death
Bike, sunglasses remnants of horror on Silver Comet

By YOLANDA RODRÍGUEZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 08/26/06
Fingerprints on sunglasses. Blood on a bicycle. Blood on shoes.

That's among the evidence that Paulding County prosecutors believe points to Michael William Ledford as the killer of Jennifer Ewing.

 

[southcitymom]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2006/09/28/0929metSilver.html


Man indicted in Silver Comet murder

By YOLANDA RODRIGUEZ
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 09/28/06
Michael William Ledford was indicted Thursday in the death of Jennifer Ewing, a Sandy Springs mother of three found murdered on the Silver Comet Trail.

Paulding's district attorney, Drew Lane, said they are considering the death penalty in this case.

 

[Kat]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2009/05/11/silver_comet_trail_trial.html

Monday, May 11, 2009

Opening statements are scheduled Monday morning in the trial of Michael Ledford, the man accused of murdering a Sandy Springs woman who was biking on the popular Silver Comet Trail in 2006...

...(Michael) Ledford, 46, is facing multiple murder charges and other felonies for the June 25, 2006, attack on the bike path that stretches from Smyrna in Cobb County to the Alabama line.

(Jennifer) Ewing, 54, was on her regular 50-mile ride along the path when she was ambushed along an isolated stretch of the trail. She was sexually assaulted and beaten to death .

 

[southcitymom]

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/me...met_slaying.html?cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab