MS - Jessica Chambers, 19, Panola County, 6 Dec 2014 ; Quinton Tellis Indicted - #13

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ATasteOfHoney said:
What I saw at the very end is that he motions & makes a hand gesture for someone to telephone him.

Moo
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He problably will be calling them I think he was saying Ill call u......

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Never have understood why Ali was determined not to be a usual suspect in the beginning? He dated QTs sister. The sister, LT, who was interviewed at M&Ms by FoxNews crushed on Ali

BBM--from a post a ways back by DeDee. I have never heard that QT's sister and Ali were together. This may def be important later down the road. I am furiously digging to figure out how QT and Jessica met, and what their relationship was. Why was he SOOOOO angry with her?
 
sallye818 said:
Never have understood why Ali was determined not to be a usual suspect in the beginning? He dated QTs sister. The sister, LT, who was interviewed at M&Ms by FoxNews crushed on Ali

BBM--from a post a ways back by DeDee. I have never heard that QT's sister and Ali were together. This may def be important later down the road. I am furiously digging to figure out how QT and Jessica met, and what their relationship was. Why was he SOOOOO angry with her?
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I recall a picture of Jessica's car burned on the back of a truck after it had been picked up on it's way out of the gas station.

That vehicle was towed from the crime scene and showed up at M&M First Stop gas station at approximately 9:30pm.

https://lorrab.wordpress.com/tag/district-attorney-john-champions/

It has bothered me as to why there??? I wonder now if it was for show? Who was driving that truck? eta
 
d4j said:
The assistant public defender smiles when greeting the D.A. and some other person with the D.A.
The demeanor might be professional courtesy, but it strikes me as inappropriately
detached from the gravity of the matter at hand, and disrespectful to the Chambers family.
JMHO
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Speaking of the gravity of the situation...

By my count, there were six (6) armed CSO's in blue uniforms standing at the front of the courtroom, not to mention the two deputies in full tactical gear and flack jackets, who moved offscreen after escorting the prisoner in. At the end of the Action News 5 video, I noticed two more plain clothes LEO's had been standing on the left side of the front of the courtroom, each wearing a 9mm on their hips. "No monkey business today" was the message being broadcast, loud and clear.

When the actual murder trial begins, however, I'm wondering whether the defense will be objecting to such high profile security as prejudicial. The Public Defenders from Jackson may also ask that Tellis be allowed to appear in a coat and tie instead of prison garb, and his manacles removed before entry.

MOO
 
Atkins novel, Jessica Chambers case: Fact vs. fiction
Jana Hoops, Clarion-Ledger correspondent 9:21 a.m. CDT July 19, 2016

Q&A with crime writer and Oxford resident Ace Atkins, and includes a look at his latest book's plot that bears similarities with 2014 homicide of Mississippi teen Jessica Chambers.

[...]

The extraordinary new novel in the New York Times–bestselling author’s acclaimed series about the real Deep South—“a joy ride into the heart of darkness” (The Washington Post). She was just seventeen, a high school dropout named Milly Jones, found walking down the middle of the highway, engulfed in flames. Even in a tough Mississippi county like Tibbehah, it shatters the community, and it is up to Sheriff Quinn Colson, back on the job after a year away, and his deputy Lillie Virgil, to investigate what happened and why. Before long, however, accusations start to fly, national media and federal authorities descend, and what seemed like a senseless act of violence begins to appear like something even more disturbing—with more victims waiting in the shadows.

http://www.aceatkins.com/books/the-innocents-a-quinn-colson-novel/
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Has anyone read this yet?
 
PeterThomasFan said:
Atkins novel, Jessica Chambers case: Fact vs. fiction
Jana Hoops, Clarion-Ledger correspondent 9:21 a.m. CDT July 19, 2016

Q&A with crime writer and Oxford resident Ace Atkins, and includes a look at his latest book's plot that bears similarities with 2014 homicide of Mississippi teen Jessica Chambers.

[...]



Has anyone read this yet?
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Had some trouble with your Clarion-Ledger link, Peter. Try this one instead:
http://on.thec-l.com/29PYRE4

Regards,
Clouseau
 
One more article on Tellis's pre-trial hearing, this one from the Desoto Times, a newspaper covering the county where Tellis is being held. Includes a photo of Tellis exiting the rear door of the courthouse following his hearing on Friday, July 15th, during which he pleaded "not guilty". Looks like he's got a pocket full of bad news:

http://www.desototimes.com/news/tellis-enters-not-guilty-plea/article_5a234738-4a99-11e6-93de-973f50e9020f.html

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Ben Chambers, Jessica's father, is quoted at the end of the article:

"I hope everything works out," Ben Chambers said after being escorted out the rear of the courthouse by armed deputies. "I know it will. I am a man of faith. The best law enforcement in the world has worked on this case — I can tell you that."
 
PeterThomasFan said:
Atkins novel, Jessica Chambers case: Fact vs. fiction
Jana Hoops, Clarion-Ledger correspondent 9:21 a.m. CDT July 19, 2016

Q&A with crime writer and Oxford resident Ace Atkins, and includes a look at his latest book's plot that bears similarities with 2014 homicide of Mississippi teen Jessica Chambers.

[...]



Has anyone read this yet?
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Not yet but I will be soon. It's on my list! If you've read any of his novels you'll know why I can't wait. It's also a plus he is a former SEC player! SEC is a religion down this way.

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This article, published the January after Jessica's murder, gives the local black community's perspective. She was well-liked by those who knew her. There was just as much desire among her black friends and acquaintances as the white ones to find her killer. Quentin Tellis, accused of her murder, was flying under everybody's radar. No one collected the $54,000 reward:

http://blackchristiannews.com/2015/01/jessica-chambers-murdered-gang-murdered-white-black-racists-black-boyfriend-mississippi-murdered-former-black-boyfriend/

"Jessica made bad choices sometimes in the people she chose to be around and in the people she chose to trust. Everyone in this world is not good,” Fleming said. “Just because she had a good, kind, caring heart, she expected that from others, but it’s not always like that in life. You have bad black people and you have bad white people. There’s bad people all throughout this world.”
-- Theresa Fleming, whose son Bryan Rudd once dated Jessica​

Inspector Clouseau
Sûretéu

JMO
 
This case is so angry and vicious, what an absolute horrifying way to die. I'm hoping the evidence is there for a conviction. QT seems like a pretty solid suspect given the connections. And it's absolute calculated murder of rage.
 
This hoodlum, QT, was released from prison in Oct '14 before he killed Jessica on Dec 6, 2014.

He could not have known her for a long time at all. After his arrest, local talk was that JC and QT had been together for a short time, maybe a few weeks. All citizens of Courtland and Batesville were suspects until his arrest but no one said anything about Jessica and QT publicly b/c look what happened to Jessica.
Jessica's murder by immolation changed me in several ways forever.
 
rbarber17 said:
http://on.thec-l.com/1TDZiWC

This is a link to the video at the beginning of this latest Courier-Ledger article. It was recorded several months ago. Watch behind Therese Apel, in the cubicle office space behind her and just to the right of camera, between the 4:00 and 4:15 time stamps. See if you don't spot "someone" with her hair rolled up in a little ball on top of her head, just like someone we all know. She is approaching the camera, but then turns away, and then she does something really quite amazing... But I'll let you see for yourself.

Will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.
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d4j said:
This is quite an amazing observation that makes my day or week--or something!

Whether the cause of the apparition is technical and/or spiritual, etc.,
I feel comforted and joyous--like her spirit has reached out to us somehow.

Her apparition reminds me of the novel and the movie "The Lovely Bones,"
in which the protagonist, a girl, finds various ways to let her father know,
from Heaven, that she is OK and with him.

Here's a link to a YouTube clip in which the girl causes a dead rose blossom that her father is holding
to bloom in his hand:

The Lovely Bones - Jack Realizes the Truth (Full scene) HD 2009
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoHF9r0UmA#t=149
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rbarber17 said:
Thank you for this, d4j, which states so clearly and lovingly what I could not. Jessica will remain a part of us for as long as we live. Things that stick with us like that little ball of hair on top of her little punkin haid, her shuffling pajama steps off camera at the M&M, snapshots of her growing up into a fine young lady full of life and love -- even in those last horrible moments, enduring the pain to try and tell her friends and family what happened, and all that she did not get a chance to share with us as a budding young author. Your film clip, La Vie en Rose, a fitting remembrance of our little cheerleader for life.

High regards,
Inspector Clouseau
Sûreté
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d4j said:
Beautifully said, rbarber17.
--d4j
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Thanks so much, d4j. I just watched "The Lovely Bones" for the first time tonight. Did you notice the date of Susie Q's murder? December 6th.

Blessings,
Clouseau
 
rbarber17 said:
Thanks so much, d4j. I just watched "The Lovely Bones" for the first time tonight. Did you notice the date of Susie Q's murder? December 6th.

Blessings,
Clouseau
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I did not notice the December 6th connection, Inspector!
Thanks for watching the movie and pointing out that detail.

My mother recommended the novel to me several years ago.
(Her book club was reading it.)
But I saw the movie--possibly with her--before I read the novel.

"The Lovely Bones" is one of my memories of Mom--
and now, more than ever, thanks to your observations, also a memory of Ms. Jessica Lane Chambers.

My mother's birthday is February 23.
So I'll henceforth associate (a) her birthday with (b) the news of the indictment on that same day this year.

Appreciatively, d4j
 
rbarber17 said:
Justice finally served, a prelude to next summer's main event :

http://www.msnewsnow.com/story/33735674/ms-woman-going-to-prison-for-attempting-to-profit-off-burning-death-of-jessica-chambers?clienttype=generic&mobilecgbypass&sf42703575=1


Regards,
Inspector Clouseau
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This woman has to serve 7 years out of a 10 year sentence for stealing $1,433?? I'm not saying that sentence is too long, but I see people commit much worse white collar crime and their sentences aren't even half of what hers is. I guess this is just another case that proves our justice system favors people with money.
 
ZooSleuth said:
This woman has to serve 7 years out of a 10 year sentence for stealing $1,433?? I'm not saying that sentence is too long, but I see people commit much worse white collar crime and their sentences aren't even half of what hers is. I guess this is just another case that proves our justice system favors people with money.
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I agree it does seem rather severe. Obviously, the judge who decided her punishment was very incensed with someone trying to take advantage of a family undergoing such an ordeal. I suspect for state prison, she will be out in half that sentence (time off for good behavior). That's unlike a federal conviction, where the sentence is essentially the same as the time to be served.

BTW, she got away with zip, nada. The $1,433 was repayment for court costs.

Could she have gotten a lighter sentence with a good lawyer? Probably, but that was apparently not an option for a not-so-clever Facebook scam artist.

JMO,
Clou
 
Remembering ...
Ms. Jessica Lane Chambers was assaulted 2 years ago, December 6, 2014.
 
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