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An Air Force staff sergeant suspected in the shooting deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings was booked into the Escambia County Jail this morning.
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Donald Stallworth, 28, was extradited from Escambia County, Ala., where he was arrested July 14.

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http://www.pnj.com/article/20090728/NEWS01/90728020
 
A judge has denied bond for an Air Force sergeant accused in the shooting deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings.

Donnie Ray Stallworth Jr. is one of eight people charged in the deaths.

The couple, who were known for adopting 13 special needs children, were killed in a July 9 home invasion. A safe was stolen from their home.

Stallworth appeared via video from jail in a Pensacola court Wednesday after he was extradited from nearby Brewton, Ala., where he turned himself in earlier this month.

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http://pnj.com/article/20090729/NEWS01/907290355
 
A woman out on bond in the Billings homicides is back in jail -- this time on a bigamy charge.


Pamela Long Wiggins was arrested shortly after 4 p.m. The Escambia County Sheriff's Office took her to the Escambia County Jail, according to sheriff's spokesman Sgt. Ted Roy.


The charges were filed by the state attorney's office.


Long Wiggins was out on $10,000 bond after being charged as an accessory after the fact in the deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings, who were found slain in their home on July 9.


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http://www.pnj.com/article/20090730/NEWS01/90730014
 
Florida couple's slaying was a contract hit, source says-CNN



The source said the state attorney's office is working under the belief that most of the suspects in the case thought they were there for a robbery, but that Leonard Gonzalez Jr., the alleged organizer of the crime, and other yet-unnamed suspects were plotting a hit on the couple.

The source said that from "Gonzalez down" it was a robbery and that from "Gonzalez up" it was a hit. The source was not sure of the motive behind the hit.

more at link

http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/31/couple.slain/index.html
 
What if Jr and an "inside confederate" knew there were two safes; a small one and a large one, and the large one was known to contain the real loot, while the little was used as a McGuffin...

Two sources familiar with the investigation told CNN that a second safe at the home contained at least $100,000....
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http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/07/31/couple.slain/index.html

If the insider and the plan was good enough, heck, they could have gotten into the large safe, and gotten the money out of the large safe hours or even days in advance, perhaps leaving the adoption papers and a token amount behind for the police to 'discover'... then of course, during the actual home invasion, Byrd and Melanie need to be removed, and the gang needs to be diverted...
 
According to WEARTV the Sheriff will hold a presser at 7PM Central time tonight! He is expected to address CNN findings.
 
Wiggins' husband speaks
out on charges

Updated: Friday, 31 Jul 2009, 6:43 PM CDT
Published : Friday, 31 Jul 2009, 6:29 PM CDT

* Hubert Tate

Court records show Pamela Wiggins had a husband in Alabama and Florida at the same time.

A marriage license shows James Malden and Pamela Long were married April 9, 2007 in Bay Minette.

"I am ashamed to say she was a good woman at one time, or she had me fooled. I am disappointed in her," said Malden.

Malden says things were going well in the first months of the marriage, but then life for the two started to get rough. That's when Long left and remarried Hugh Wiggins in Okaloosa County, Florida.

http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/crime/Wiggins_Husband_Speaks_Out_On_Charges
 
Escambia County Sheriff David Morgan conducted a news conference this evening to address “contract hit” rumors surrounding the investigation of the slayings of Byrd and Melanie Billings.

The conference followed a CNN news story that said the homicides were a “contract hit” as well as a robbery. The story cited an unnamed source “with knowledge of the investigation.”

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http://pnj.com/article/20090731/NEWS01/90731039
 
Teen in Billings case charged as adult

Kris Wernowsky • kwernowsky@pnj.com • August 4, 2009

A teenager charged with murder in the July 9 deaths of Byrd and Melanie Billings made his first appearance in adult court Tuesday.
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Rakeem Chaney Florence, 16, of Fort Walton Beach appeared before Escambia County Circuit Judge John T. Parnham, shackled and wearing a green jail jumpsuit. He is the last of the seven suspects accused of murder to make an initial appearance.

The case will now head to a grand jury which will decide individual charges for each of the defendants. The grand jury is expected to convene within the next week to 10 days, Assistant State Attorney Greg Marcille said Tuesday.

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090804/NEWS01/90804015
 
According to WEAR TV 6PM local news, Henry "Cab" Tice is considered a person of interest and LE wants to speak with him. A WEAR reporter went to a car lot were he is known to work, and they said he was out of town. LE has not been able to locate him. They also interviewed an attorney who represented Tice's wife in a lawsuit. He said Tice was hiding assets from his wife, which led to a divorce.

a portion of the story:

ESCAMBIA COUNTY - Tonight we know more about a person of interest in the Billings' murder who has been out of town for about a week.

According to a source close to the investigation, his name is Henry Cabell Tice: A local car dealer who had a business dispute with Bud and Melanie Billings.


http://www.weartv.com/
 
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