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Donna's husband confessed to the murder at about 4pm this afternoon. He is currently in custody.
Donna's husband confessed to the murder at about 4pm this afternoon. He is currently in custody.
Donna's husband confessed to the murder at about 4pm this afternoon. He is currently in custody.
Hats off to the Leake County LE officers for being able to get to the heart of this case - as painful as it may have been in a small community where everybody knows everybody and all seemed to think so highly of both Mike and Donna. It takes true professionalism to put friendships aside and solve a case so quickly. God Bless them.
http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=13316034
WLBT TV station just added a story on line.
One of the things about this case is that he sent his father to find his dil like that. Iirc, it caused him to have heart problems that hospitalized him. What if their daughter had found her! and TWO gunshots, that was not even close to an accident.
Salem, I'll do the best I can on this.
The sheriff said in the article in the Carthaginian that the husband left around 7:30 pm to go to his father-in-law's house to catch chickens. He was there all night. At some point, Donna's daughter came home and saw a light in the tack shop but was not disturbed because her mother often worked at night on the computer there.
The next morning, Donna didn't show up for work and a coworker called the husband. He called his dad to check on her. The dad found her and called 911 about 8:30 am. The sheriff further says that she had been dead for "several hours" when she was found. That's as close as I can come to a time of death.
She died from two bullet wounds, one to the back of the head and one to the side of the head with no evidence of any other trauma. "Mrs. Cochran likely died almost instantly" he said, "It was quick."
"It appeared" Waggoner (the sheriff) said, "to be a robbery that turned into murder." Money was taken from a bank bag and the husband said it was probably less than $500.
There was a broken window in the tack shop. Waggoner commented, "Despite the broken window, entry was apparently not made into the business through that.....(I can't make out the word.) There was no apparent sign of forced entry." In one of the other articles listed above in other posts, it said that she always kept the door bolted. So, this is a puzzle for me. Why the broken window? And how was it that there was no forced entry?
I am no sleuther. But I know many of you are seasoned sleuther. I will try to bring the info. I hope you can interpret it.
From www.thecarthaginian.com
BBMOne of the things about this case is that he sent his father to find his dil like that. Iirc, it caused him to have heart problems that hospitalized him. What if their daughter had found her! and TWO gunshots, that was not even close to an accident.
Oh man. I've been following along here and hoped against hope it wasn't him. So sad.