GUILTY NC - Alicia Deans, 26, Leland, 28 April 2015

[sallye818]

I was interested in this story b/c this little town is near where we go to the beach in NC. Was praying her body hadn't been discarded in one of the many swampy areas around Leland. I am assuming this Nathan Tyler was the "Elisha" of her tattoos...Nathan Elisha Tyler, according to the first article posted.

 

[Aynia]

So sad, may Alicia RIP

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

An extensive article on the life and murder of Alicia Deans. No trial date has been set.

Love quest, lie led to Leland mom's murder - November 2016

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20161115/love-quest-lie-led-to-leland-moms-murder

Alicia Marie Deans’ search for love and acceptance ended in swampy woods on the edge of a Columbus County tobacco field in the spring of 2015.

For the better part of 26 years, Alicia struggled to make friends. Complications at birth left the young Leland mother at a cognitive disadvantage. She was simpler than many, more trusting than warranted, less cynical than us all.

As a result, she was susceptible to cons, her mother Sheila Deans said. She’d been known to fall in with the wrong crowd and sometimes she made the kinds of friends her mother wouldn’t pick for her.

But Alicia was grown, her mother said with a sigh -- how long could the family protect her?

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Murder trial to begin for Leland mother shot to death in Clarendon woods

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20180127/murder-trial-to-begin-for-leland-mother-shot-to-death-in-clarendon-woods

The murder trial of Nathan Elisha Tyler Jr., 45, gets underway Tuesday in Columbus County.

Tyler is one of three people charged with first-degree murder in the April 25, 2015, killing of Alicia Marie Deans, 26.

Deans, of Leland, was missing for more than two weeks before Tyler’s co-defendant Kayla Turner -- a woman Alicia thought was her friend -- showed police where to find the young mother’s body in swampy Clarendon woods.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Columbus County man to testify against co-defendant in murder trial

Michael Williams 33, pleaded in Columbus County Superior Court to second-degree murder, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon in the slaying of Deans, 26.

Sentencing will take place after Williams testifies in Tyler’s trial.

Opening statements set for Wednesday in murder trial

In 2015, six days before Alicia Deans was executed on the edge of a Columbus County tobacco field, her accused killer had someone shoot him in the leg in a plot to frame his ex-girlfriend, court statements revealed.

When police didn’t believe that story, Nathan Elisha Tyler Jr., 45, allegedly hatched a second scheme that entailed stealing Deans’ car and using it to kidnap his ex, Assistant District Attorney Chris Gentry said during a pre-trial hearing Tuesday morning in Columbus County Superior Court.

Charges are still pending against Kayla Turner, though it’s likely she’ll turn state’s evidence as well.

 

[Blef]

An extensive article on the life and murder of Alicia Deans. No trial date has been set.

Love quest, lie led to Leland mom's murder - November 2016

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20161115/love-quest-lie-led-to-leland-moms-murder

So sad

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Co-defendant tells jury Nathan Tyler Jr. killed Alicia Deans

Nathan Tyler Jr. needed to use Alicia Deans’ car to kidnap his ex-girlfriend, Kayla Turner testified Wednesday.

So the then-19-year-old Turner and her boyfriend Michael Williams, 33, agreed to help Tyler, 45, stage a robbery in which they’d tie up Deans and leave her in an abandoned house. she said.

“No one was supposed to get hurt,” Turner said during the first day of testimony in Tyler’s first-degree murder trial in Columbus County.

In exchange for her cooperation, Turner will plead to second-degree murder, armed robbery and kidnapping in the April 28, 2015, shooting death of Deans. On Monday, Williams pleaded to the same deal.

http://www.wect.com/story/37394713/mother-of-murdered-woman-her-son-doesnt-understand-why-she-cant-come-back-from-heaven

“Her son doesn’t understand why she can’t come back from heaven,” Sheila Deans said in court Wednesday, fighting back tears as she explained the toll her daughter’s murder has taken on the family.

Deans’ mother told the jury her daughter went to visit Tyler's son on April 28, 2015. She never saw her again. While on the stand, Deans spoke about the phone call she received from detectives.

“We found her, but she’s not alive,” Sheila Deans recalled.

 

[JerseyGirl]

Closing arguments were set to begin today at 9:30 a.m.

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/...us-county-murder-trial-calls-just-2-witnesses

 

[GodsGirlE]

The verdict is in.

https://nrcolumbus.com/news/tyler-gets-life-no-parole/

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[JerseyGirl]

The jury found Nathan Elisha Tyler Jr., 45, guilty of first-degree murder, robbery with a dangerous weapon and kidnapping. In addition to the life sentence, Tyler was given 22 years in prison on the robbery and kidnapping charges.

http://www.fayobserver.com/news/20180206/man-gets-life-in-mother-of-twos-kidnapping-shooting-death

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20180205/clarendon-man-gets-life-in-prison-in-leland-womans-2015-killing

In a victim impact statement on behalf of Deans’ family, Alicia Deans’ oldest brother, Wes Emmons, said the loss of his sister sent the family into a “downward spiral.”

“To lose your sister is extremely painful, but to lose your child has got to be a different hurt. We all, as a family, blamed ourselves, but of course my mother tried to take all the blame,” he said,

Sheila Deans said she was relieved by the verdict.

“I’m just so grateful that he can’t hurt anybody else,” she said through tears.

 

[JusticeWillBeServed]

Co-defendants sentenced in Leland woman’s murder

http://www.starnewsonline.com/news/20180214/co-defendants-sentenced-in-leland-womans-murder

Michael Williams and Kayla Turner were sentenced Monday to a minimum of 30 years and 20 years in state prison, respectively, in the murder of 26-year-old Alicia Deans. They both plead guilty to charges of second degree murder, first degree kidnapping and robbery with a dangerous weapon.