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“Ouachita County Sheriff David Norwood says searchers found the body of Dominick Arceneaux of Chidester floating in White Oak Lake. Norwood says the boy’s body was about 300 feet down the shoreline from his mother’s mobile home on the southwestern Arkansas lake.” [Link]
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“28-year-old Curtis Lavelle Vance pleaded not guilty to capital murder, rape, burglary and theft charges Thursday morning. Vance said nothing to reporters as three Pulaski County Sheriff’s deputies escorted him to the hearing. ” [Link]
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“The filing Tuesday by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette asks justices to overturn a ruling by Little Rock District Judge Lee Munson keeping jail roster information, visitor logs and other details about Curtis Lavelle Vance from public inspection. Munson issued a ruling Monday saying the release of those details could “irreparably compromise” Vance’s chance at a fair trial. Jess Askew, a lawyer for the statewide newspaper, rejected the claim.” [Link]
“Judge Lee Munson rejected a request by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette to open jail roster information and visitor logs for Curtis Lavelle Vance, 28, of Marianna. Vance faces a capital murder charge in the killing of Anne Pressly, an anchorwoman for Little Rock ABC affiliate KATV. ‘The court hereby finds that the high level of publicity and media attention in this case threaten to destroy Mr. Vance’s right to a fair trial by an impartial jury,’ Munson wrote in his order. ” [Link]
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“Judge Lee Munson told lawyers Monday he would review his order sealing jail records involving 28-year-old Curtis Lavelle Vance, the suspect in the slaying of KATV anchorwoman Anne Pressly. Munson says he will not ‘totally turn the order aside’ but hinted that he would open some of the records involved in the case.” [Link]
“Kristen Edwards, of Marianna, Ark., was raped and attacked in April. Police say that DNA evidence from Pressly’s crime scene matched Edwards’ attacker, and detectives from both cities collaborated to search for a suspect. Curtis Lavell Vance was arrested Nov. 26 and charged with Pressly’s murder.” [Link]
“In his order, the judge barred prosecution and defense lawyers, law enforcement officers, the FBI, state Crime Laboratory employees and state Medical Examiner staff from commenting to the media on the case. He also sealed the investigative file. Munson said he granted the request to protect Vance’s right to a fair trial. He said the order would be in effect until Vance appears in circuit court for his plea and arraignment.” [Link]
“The Little Rock Police Department issued a statement Tuesday afternoon saying it anticipates no additional arrests in the Anne Pressly homicide investigation. The statement follows last week’s arrest of 28-year-old Curtis Lavelle Vance, who is charged with capital murder and is currently being held at the Pulaski County jail. ” [Link]
“The parents of the television anchorwoman who was beaten to death said Monday there is evidence their daughter also was sexually assaulted, and that she broke her hand fighting her attacker. Five days after a suspect was arrested in the Oct. 20 beating of KATV anchorwoman Anne Pressly, Guy and Patti Cannady said on NBC’s ‘Today‘ that the family still has many questions about the killing. Guy Cannady said that while the police theory is that Pressly interrupted a random robbery, he isn’t convinced of that.” [Link]
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“At a news conference late this evening, a police spokesman said Curtis Lavell Vance, 28, Marianna, Ark., is wanted for Pressly’s murder. They said they believe Vance is driving a black 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora, and said he was believed to be armed with a 9mm High Point pistol with extra ammunition. Vance was believed to be traveling with a woman named Sheanika Cooper, 25, and three small children, police said.” [Link]
“The children, all younger than 18 and part of the Tony Alamo Christian Ministries, were taken while custody hearings were being held for six girls seized during a September raid of Alamo’s compound in Fouke, in southwest Arkansas. The court must decide whether the girls should be returned to their parents or remain in state care.” [Link]
“‘We are profoundly saddened to tell you that our dear Anne has lost her struggle for life,’ Guy and Patti Cannady, Pressly’s parents, said in a statement posted on the KATV Web site. ‘It was our hope, as was yours, that Anne would overcome the injuries inflicted upon her in the brutal attack at her home. We were with her in her last moments, and although our hearts are broken, we are at the same time comforted by our faith knowing that Anne is now with our Heavenly Father. ” [Link]
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“KATV anchor Anne Pressly, 26, was found about 4:30 a.m. Monday by her mother, who went to the house when her daughter didn’t answer a wake-up call, Little Rock police spokesman Cassandra Davis said. Davis said investigators are talking to Pressly’s co-workers to determine whether she ‘has had any problems.’” [Link]
“Alamo was staying at a hotel in Flagstaff, Ariz., when arrested, said FBI spokesman Steve Frazier in Little Rock. The religious leader — who began his career as a California street preacher in 1966 — was scheduled for a federal court appearance Friday in Flagstaff.” [Link]
